Al-Adab Al-Mufrad
Al-Adab Al-Mufrad 180
حَدَّثَنَا مُوسَى، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو عَوَانَةَ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا فِرَاسٌ، عَنْ أَبِي صَالِحٍ، عَنْ زَاذَانَ أَبِي عُمَرَ قَالَ: كُنَّا عِنْدَ ابْنِ عُمَرَ، فَدَعَا بِغُلاَمٍ لَهُ كَانَ ضَرَبَهُ فَكَشَفَ عَنْ ظَهْرِهِ فَقَالَ: أَيُوجِعُكَ؟ قَالَ: لاَ. فَأَعْتَقَهُ، ثُمَّ رَفَعَ عُودًا مِنَ الأَرْضِ فَقَالَ: مَالِي فِيهِ مِنَ الأَجْرِ مَا يَزِنُ هَذَا الْعُودَ، فَقُلْتُ: يَا أَبَا عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ، لِمَ تَقُولُ هَذَا؟ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ النَّبِيَّ صلى الله عليه وسلم يَقُولُ أَوْ قَالَ: مَنْ ضَرَبَ مَمْلُوكَهُ حَدًّا لَمْ يَأْتِهِ، أَوْ لَطَمَ وَجْهَهُ، فَكَفَّارَتُهُ أَنْ يُعْتِقَهُ.
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
Musa narrated to us. He said: Abu Awana narrated to us. He said: Firas narrated to us, from Abu Salih, from Zadhan Abu Umar, who said: We were with Ibn Umar. He summoned a servant of his whom he had beaten and uncovered the servant's back. He asked, 'Does it hurt?' The servant said, 'No.' Ibn Umar then freed him. He picked up a stick from the ground and said, 'I have no reward for this worth as much as this stick.' I asked, 'Abu Abd al-Rahman, why do you say that?' He replied, 'I heard the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, say—or he said: Whoever strikes his servant with a punishment he has not incurred, or slaps his face, his expiation is to set him free.'
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
مَنْ ضَرَبَ مَمْلُوكَهُ حَدًّا لَمْ يَأْتِهِ،
The expression for a ḥadd not incurred is compressed and may refer to an undeserved prescribed punishment.
Should the legal term ḥadd be transliterated or rendered descriptively?
سَمِعْتُ النَّبِيَّ صلى الله عليه وسلم يَقُولُ أَوْ قَالَ
The report explicitly preserves uncertainty in the mode of attribution.
Should the alternative wording remain in the main text as translated?