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سنن ابي داود
Abu Dawud
أبواب النوم
(Abwab Un Noam )
باب فِي حَقِّ الْمَمْلُوكِ
Chapter: Regarding the rights of slaves.
Sunan Abu Dawud 5168 — Regarding the rights of slaves
حَدَّثَنَا مُسَدَّدٌ , وَأَبُو كَامِلٍ , قَالَ : حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو عَوَانَةَ ، عَنْ فِرَاسٍ ، عَنْ أَبِي صَالِحٍ ذَكْوَانَ ، عَنْ زَاذَانَ ، قَالَ : أَتَيْتُ ابْنَ عُمَرَ وَقَدْ أَعْتَقَ مَمْلُوكًا لَهُ فَأَخَذَ مِنَ الْأَرْضِ عُودًا أَوْ شَيْئًا ، فَقَالَ : مَا لِي فِيهِ مِنَ الْأَجْرِ مَا يَسْوَى هَذَا سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ ، يَقُولُ : مَنْ لَطَمَ مَمْلُوكَهُ أَوْ ضَرَبَهُ ، فَكَفَّارَتُهُ أَنْ يُعْتِقَهُ " .
Zadhan said: I came to Ibn Umar when he set his slave free. He took a stick or something else from the earth and said; for me there is no reward even equivalent to this. I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say: If anyone slaps or beats his slave the atonement due from him is to set him free.
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Explanation & Benefits
Shaykh Umar Farooq Saeedi
Benefits and Issues:
Islam has abolished the system of slavery, which had been prevalent in human society for centuries, with great and subtle wisdom, by making the emancipation of slaves an expiation for mistakes committed from time to time.
Thus, the believers made it their practice to free slaves in this manner.
And they freed them to such an extent that now this category is almost extinct.
Islam has abolished the system of slavery, which had been prevalent in human society for centuries, with great and subtle wisdom, by making the emancipation of slaves an expiation for mistakes committed from time to time.
Thus, the believers made it their practice to free slaves in this manner.
And they freed them to such an extent that now this category is almost extinct.
Source: Sunan Abu Dawood – Commentary by Shaykh Umar Farooq Saeedi, Page: 5168
