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1541. Abū Hurairah narrated: "I heard the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ saying: 'Whoever frees a believing slave, then Allāh frees a limb from the Fire for each of his limbs, such that he frees his private parts in lieu of his private parts.'" (Ṣaḥīḥ)
[He said:] There are narrations on this topic from 'Āishah, 'Amr bin 'Abasah, Ibn 'Abbās, Wāthilah bin Al-Ashqa', Abū Umāmah, 'Uqbah bin 'Āmir, [and Ka'b bin Murrah].
[Abū 'Eisā said:] The Ḥadīth of Abū Hurairah is a Hasan Ṣaḥīḥ Gharīb Ḥadīth from this route. Ibn Al-Ĥād's (a narrator in the chain of this Ḥadīth) name is Yazīd bin 'Abdullāh bin Usāmah bin Al-Ĥād, from Al-Madīnah, and he is trustworthy. Mālik bin Anas and more than one of the people of knowledge reported from him.
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Commentary
This narration suggests that an honest and physically fit slave should be freed in expiation for breaking an oath. This will cause freedom of every limb of the person who manumits him from the Hellfire.
