The Book of Manumission of Slaves

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Chapter 1: If A Mukathib Pays Part Of His Contract Of Manumission Then Becomes Incapacitated Or Dies

Narrated Umm Salamah, Ummul Mu'minin

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said to us: If one of you has a slave, and he enters into an agreement to purchase his freedom, and can pay the full price, she must veil herself from him.

Chapter 4: One Who Manumits His Share Of A Slave

Qatadah narrated with his chain of narrators

The Prophet (ﷺ) said: If a man emancipates a slave shared by him with another man, his emancipation rests with him (who emancipated his share). This is the version of Ibn Suwaid.

Qatadah narrated with his chain of narrators. The Prophet (ﷺ) said

If anyone emancipates his share in a slave, he emancipates him (completely) by his property if he has property. The narrator Ibn al-Muthanna did not mention al-Nadr b. Anas. This is the version of Ibn Suwaid.

Chapter 5: Whoever Mentioned Working In Order To Pay Off The Remaining Portion, In This Hadith

Abu Hurairah reported the Prophet (ﷺ) as saying

If anyone emancipates a share in his slave, he should completely emancipate him if he has money; but if he has none, then slave will be required to work (to pay for his freedom), but he must not be overburdened.

The tradition mentioned above by Rawh b. 'Ubadah from Sa'id b. Abu 'Arubah. In this version he did not mention the words "the slave should be required to work." If has also been transmitted by Jarir b. Hazim and Musa b. Khalaf from Qatadah through the chain of Yazid b. Zurai' and to the same effect. In this version they mentioned the words "the slave should be required to work"

Chapter 6: Regarding Whoever Reported That He Is Not Asked To Work

'Abd Allah b. 'Umar reported the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) as saying

If anyone emancipates his share in slave, a fair price for the slave should be fixed, give his partners their shares, and the slave be thus emancipated. Otherwise he is emancipated to the extent of the share which he emancipated.

The tradition mentioned above has also been transmitted by Ibn 'Umar from the Prophet (ﷺ) to the same effect as mentioned by Ibrahim b. Musa through a different chain.

Ibn 'Umar reported the Prophet (ﷺ) as saying

If a man emancipates his share in a slave, the rest will be emancipated by his money if he has enough money to pay the full price for him.

Chapter 7: Regarding One Who Acquires A Mahram Relative As A Slave

Qatadah reported 'Umar b. al-Khattab (ra) as saying

If anyone gets possession of a relative who is within the prohibited degrees, that person becomes free.

A similar tradition has also been transmitted by Jabir b. Zaid and al-Hasan through a different chain of narrators.Abu Dawud said

The narrator sa'id retained te tradition more carefully than Hammad.

Chapter 10: Regarding One Who Manumits Slaves Of His That Exceed One Third Of His Property

'Imran b. Hussain said

A man who had no other property emancipated six slaves of his at the time of the death. When the Prophet (ﷺ) was informed about it, he spoke severely of him. He then called them, divided them into three sections, cast lots among them, and emancipated two and kept four in slavery.

The tradition mentioned above has also been transmitted by Abu Qilabah from Abu Zaid through a different chain of narrators to the same effect

A man of the Ansar ... The Prophet (ﷺ) said: Had I been present before his burial, he would not have been buried in a Muslim cemetry.

Chapter 12: Manumitting One Who Was Born Out Of Zina

Narrated AbuHurayrah

The Prophet (ﷺ) said: The child of adultery is worst of the three.

Abu Hurairah said: That I give a flog in the path of Allah (as a charity) is dearer to me than emancipating a child of adultery.

Chapter 1: If A Mukathib Pays Part Of His Contract Of Manumission Then Becomes Incapacitated Or Dies

Narrated 'Amr b. Shu'aib

on his father's authority, told that his grandfather reported the Prophet (ﷺ) said: A slave who has entered into an agreement to purchase his freedom is a slave as long as a dirham of the agreed price remains to be paid.

Chapter 4: One Who Manumits His Share Of A Slave

Narrated Abu al-Malih

On his father's authority (this is AbulWalid's version): A man emancipated a share in a slave and the matter was mentioned to the Prophet (ﷺ). He said: Allah has no partner.

Ibn Kathir added in his version: The Prophet (ﷺ) allowed his emancipation.

Narrated AbuHurayrah

A man emancipated his share in a slave. The Prophet (ﷺ) allowed his (full) emancipation, and required him to pay the rest of his price.

Chapter 7: Regarding One Who Acquires A Mahram Relative As A Slave

Narrated Umar ibn al-Khattab

Qatadah reported Umar ibn al-Khattab (may Allah be pleased with him) as saying: If anyone gets possession of a relative who is within the prohibited degrees, that person becomes free.

Chapter 9: Selling A Mudabbir

Jabir said

A man of the Ansar called Abu Madhkur declared that his slave called Ya'qub would be free after his death, but he had no other property. So the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) called him and said: Who will buy him ? Nu'aim b. 'Abd Allah b. al-Nahham bought him for eight hundred dirhams. When he handed them over to him, he (Prophet) said: If any of you is poor, he should begin from himself ; if anything is left over, give it to your family; if anything is left over, give it to your relatives ; if anything is left over (when they received something), then here and here.

Chapter 11: Regarding One Who Manumits A Slave Who Has Property

'Abd Allah b. 'Umar reported the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) as saying

If anyone emancipates a slave who has property, the property of the slave belongs to him except that the master makes a stipulation.

Chapter 14: Which Slave Is Better?

Narrated AbuNajih as-Sulami

Along with the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) we besieged the palace of at-Ta'if. The narrator, Mutadh, said: I heard my father (sometimes) say: "Palace of at-Ta'if," and (sometimes) "Fort of at-Ta'if," which are the same.

I heard the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) say: he who causes an arrow to hit its mark in Allah's cause will have it counted as a degree for him (in Paradise). He then transmitted the rest of the tradition.

I heard the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) say: If a Muslim man emancipates a Muslim man, Allah, the Exalted, will make every bone of his protection for every bone of his emancipator from Hell; and if a Muslim woman emancipates a Muslim woman, Allah will make every bone of hers protection for every bone of her emancipator from Hell on the Day of Resurrection.