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English translation
1547. Abū Umāmah, and other than him from the Companions of the Prophet ﷺ, narrated that the Prophet ﷺ said: "Any Muslim man who frees a Muslim man, then it is his salvation from the Fire – each of his limbs suffices for a limb of himself. And any Muslim man that frees two Muslim women, they are his salvation from the Fire – each of their limbs suffices for a limb of
himself. And any Muslim woman that frees a Muslim woman, then she is her salvation from the Fire – each of her limbs suffices for a limb of herself.” (Sahih)
[Abū ‘Eisā said:] This Hadīth is Hasan Ṣaḥīḥ Gharīb from this route.
[Abū ‘Eisā said: In this Hadīth is the proof that freeing males is more virtuous for a man than freeing females, due to the saying of the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ: “Any Muslim man who frees a Muslim man, then it is his salvation from the Fire – each of his limbs suffices for a limb of himself.” And the Hadīth is correct in its routes of transmission.]
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This narration is a proof that manumission of a slave is a cause of freedom from the Hellfire for a Muslim. Freedom of a slave will not save an infidel from the Hellfire. Freedom of a male slave brings more reward than freeing a slave woman.
In the Name of Allāh,the Merciful, the Beneficent
