Sunan Ibn Majah
Sunan Ibn Majah 2243
حَدَّثَنَا هِشَامُ بْنُ عَمَّارٍ، حَدَّثَنَا مُسْلِمُ بْنُ خَالِدٍ الزَّنْجِيُّ، حَدَّثَنَا هِشَامُ بْنُ عُرْوَةَ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، عَنْ عَائِشَةَ، أَنَّ رَجُلاً، اشْتَرَى عَبْدًا فَاسْتَغَلَّهُ ثُمَّ وَجَدَ بِهِ عَيْبًا فَرَدَّهُ . فَقَالَ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ إِنَّهُ قَدِ اسْتَغَلَّ غُلاَمِي . فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم ـ " الْخَرَاجُ بِالضَّمَانِ " .
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
Hisham ibn Ammar narrated to us; Muslim ibn Khalid al-Zanji narrated to us; Hisham ibn Urwah narrated to us, from his father, from Aishah, that a man bought an enslaved person and put him to use. Then he found a defect in him and returned him. The man said, “Messenger of Allah, he has already generated income for me.” The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: “Yield goes with liability.”
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
اشْتَرَى عَبْدًا فَاسْتَغَلَّهُ ثُمَّ وَجَدَ بِهِ عَيْبًا فَرَدَّهُ .
Istaghallahu means the buyer derived use or yield from the enslaved person before discovering a defect and returning him.
Does “put him to use” retain the general meaning without specifying a kind of labor?
فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم ـ " الْخَرَاجُ بِالضَّمَانِ " .
Al-kharaj bi-al-daman is the legal maxim that yield belongs to the party who bears the liability or risk.
Does “Yield goes with liability” preserve the compact legal maxim clearly?