Sunan Abi Dawud

Sunan Abi Dawud 3932

Arabic hadith text

حَدَّثَنَا مُسَدَّدُ بْنُ مُسَرْهَدٍ، حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الْوَارِثِ، عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ جُمْهَانَ، عَنْ سَفِينَةَ، قَالَ كُنْتُ مَمْلُوكًا لأُمِّ سَلَمَةَ فَقَالَتْ أُعْتِقُكَ وَأَشْتَرِطُ عَلَيْكَ أَنْ تَخْدُمَ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم مَا عِشْتَ ‏.‏ فَقُلْتُ إِنْ لَمْ تَشْتَرِطِي عَلَىَّ مَا فَارَقْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم مَا عِشْتُ فَأَعْتَقَتْنِي وَاشْتَرَطَتْ عَلَىَّ ‏.‏

Translation

Musaddad ibn Musarhad narrated to us: ʿAbd al-Warith narrated to us, from Saʿid ibn Jumhan, from Safinah, who said: I was enslaved by Umm Salamah. She said: ‘I will set you free on condition that you serve the Messenger of Allah ﷺ for as long as you live.’ I said: ‘If you had not made that condition on me, I would never have left the Messenger of Allah ﷺ for as long as I lived.’ So she freed me and imposed that condition on me.