Sunan Abi Dawud
Sunan Abi Dawud 3928
Arabic hadith text
حَدَّثَنَا مُسَدَّدُ بْنُ مُسَرْهَدٍ، حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنِ الزُّهْرِيِّ، عَنْ نَبْهَانَ، مُكَاتَبِ أُمِّ سَلَمَةَ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ أُمَّ سَلَمَةَ، تَقُولُ قَالَ لَنَا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم " إِنْ كَانَ لإِحْدَاكُنَّ مُكَاتَبٌ فَكَانَ عِنْدَهُ مَا يُؤَدِّي فَلْتَحْتَجِبْ مِنْهُ " .
Translation
Musaddad narrated to us: Sufyan narrated to us, from al-Zuhri, from Nabhan, the mukatab of Umm Salamah, who said: I heard Umm Salamah say: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said to us: ‘If one of you has a mukatab [a slave under a contract of manumission] who has enough to pay, let her veil herself from him.’