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What Has Been Related About A Man Who Killed His Slave

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Darussalam · Volume 3

14. The Chapters On Blood-Money From The Messenger Of Allāh ﷺ

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الجزء: 3 ¦ الصفحة: 82

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1414. Samurah narrated that the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ said: “Whoever kills his slave, then we will kill him, and whoever maims his slave, then we will maim him.” (Hasan) [Abū 'Eisā said:] This Hadīth is Hasan Gharīb. Some of the people of knowledge among the Tābi'īn followed this, among them is Ibrāhīm An-Nakha'ī. Some of the people of knowledge – among them Al-Ḥasan Al-Baṣrī, 'Aṭā' bin Abī Rabāḥ – said: "There is no retaliation between the free and the slave in cases of murder, or in cases less than murder." This is the view of Aḥmad and Ishāq. Some of them said: When a person kills his slave he is not killed for that, and when he kills the slave of someone else, then he is killed for that. This is the saying of Sufyān Ath-Thawrī [and the people of Al-Kūfah].

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١٤١٤ - حَدَّثَنَا ‌قُتَيْبَةُ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا ‌أَبُو عَوَانَةَ ، عَنْ ‌قَتَادَةَ ، عَنِ ‌الْحَسَنِ ، عَنْ ‌سَمُرَةَ قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «مَنْ قَتَلَ» عَبْدَهُ قَتَلْنَاهُ، وَمَنْ جَدَعَ عَبْدَهُ جَدَعْنَاهُ هَذَا حَدِيثٌ حَسَنٌ غَرِيبٌ. وَقَدْ ذَهَبَ بَعْضُ أَهْلِ الْعِلْمِ مِنَ التَّابِعِينَ مِنْهُمْ إِبْرَاهِيمُ النَّخَعِيُّ إِلَى هَذَا. وَقَالَ بَعْضُ أَهْلِ الْعِلْمِ مِنْهُمُ الْحَسَنُ الْبَصْرِيُّ، وَعَطَاءُ بْنُ أَبِي رَبَاحٍ: لَيْسَ بَيْنَ الْحُرِّ وَالْعَبْدِ قِصَاصٌ فِي النَّفْسِ وَلَا فِيمَا دُونَ النَّفْسِ. وَهُوَ قَوْلُ أَحْمَدَ وَإِسْحَاقَ. وَقَالَ بَعْضُهُمْ: إِذَا قَتَلَ عَبْدَهُ لَا يُقْتَلُ بِهِ، وَإِذَا قَتَلَ عَبْدَ غَيْرِهِ قُتِلَ بِهِ. وَهُوَ قَوْلُ سُفْيَانَ الثَّوْرِيِّ وَأَهْلِ الْكُوفَةِ.

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