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What Has Been Related About The Mukātab[1] Who Has What Will Fulfill (His Release)

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Darussalam · Volume 3

12. The Chapters On Business From The Messenger of Allāh ﷺ

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الجزء: 2 ¦ الصفحة: 537

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1259. Ibn 'Abbās narrated that the Prophet ﷺ said: "When the penalty (of blood money) goes to a Mukātab, or an inheritance, then he inherits in accordance with as much as he is freed from it." And the Prophet ﷺ said: "The Mukātab is given the blood-money of a free person in accordance to what he has paid (for his freedom), and that of a slave in accordance to what remains."[2] (Saḥīḥ) [He said:] There is something on this from Umm Salamah. [Abū 'Eisā said:] The Ḥadīth of Ibn ‘Abbās is a Ḥasan Ḥadīth. This is how it was reported from Yahya bin Abī Kaṭhīr from ‘Ikrimah, from Ibn ‘Abbās, from the Prophet ﷺ. Khālid bin Al-Ḥadh-dhā’ reported it from ‘Ikrimah, from ‘Ali as his saying. This is acted upon according to some of the people of knowledge among the Companions of the Prophet ﷺ and others. Most of the people of knowledge among the Companions of the Prophet ﷺ and others said that the Mukātab remains a slave as long as he still owes a Dirham. This is the view of Sufyan Ath-Thawrī, Ash-Shāfi‘ī, Aḥmad, and Ishāq.

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١٢٥٩ - حَدَّثَنَا ‌هَارُونُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللهِ الْبَزَّازُ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا ‌يَزِيدُ بْنُ هَارُونَ، قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا ‌حَمَّادُ بْنُ سَلَمَةَ، عَنْ ‌أَيُّوبَ ، عَنْ ‌عِكْرِمَةَ ، عَنِ ‌ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ ، عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَالَ: «إِذَا أَصَابَ الْمُكَاتَبُ حَدًّا» أَوْ مِيرَاثًا وَرِثَ بِحِسَابِ مَا عَتَقَ مِنْهُ. وَقَالَ النَّبِيُّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: يُودَى الْمُكَاتَبُ بِحِصَّةِ مَا أَدَّى دِيَةَ حُرٍّ وَمَا بَقِيَ دِيَةَ عَبْدٍ. وَفِي الْبَابِ عَنْ أُمِّ سَلَمَةَ. حَدِيثُ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ حَدِيثٌ حَسَنٌ، وَهَكَذَا رَوَى يَحْيَى بْنُ أَبِي كَثِيرٍ، عَنْ عِكْرِمَةَ، عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ، عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ. وَرَوَى خَالِدٌ الْحَذَّاءُ، عَنْ عِكْرِمَةَ، عَنْ عَلِيٍّ - قَوْلَهُ. وَالْعَمَلُ عَلَى هَذَا الْحَدِيثِ عِنْدَ بَعْضِ أَهْلِ الْعِلْمِ مِنْ أَصْحَابِ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ وَغَيْرِهِمْ. وَقَالَ أَكْثَرُ أَهْلِ الْعِلْمِ مِنْ أَصْحَابِ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ وَغَيْرِهِمُ: الْمُكَاتَبُ عَبْدٌ مَا بَقِيَ عَلَيْهِ دِرْهَمٌ - وَهُوَ قَوْلُ سُفْيَانَ الثَّوْرِيِّ وَالشَّافِعِيِّ وَأَحْمَدَ وَإِسْحَاقَ.

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  1. 1

    [1] The Mukātab is the slave that has an agreement from his owner to free him for a price.

  2. 2

    [2] If the Mukātab deserves some inheritance or he is to be paid some blood money, then the portions of these that he is due will depend on the portion of freedom that he has purchased from his owner.