Manumission contracts paid in young slaves

Sayyiduna Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) saw no harm in making a manumission contract (mukatabah) in exchange for servant slaves.

Nafi' said: Sayyidah Hafsah (may Allah be pleased with her) made a slave of hers a mukatab (one with a manumission contract) in exchange for servant slaves.

Sayyiduna Abu Barzah (may Allah be pleased with him) made one of his slaves a mukatab (one with a manumission contract) in exchange for servant slaves.

Ibrahim said: There is no harm in making a slave a mukatab (one with a manumission contract) in exchange for servant slaves. Jarir added in his report: and female servant slaves.

Sa'id bin Jubayr said: There is no harm in making a slave a mukatab (one with a manumission contract) in exchange for servant slaves.

Al-Hasan and Ibn Sirin both saw no harm in making a slave a mukatab (one with a manumission contract) in exchange for servant slaves.

Sa'id bin Jubayr said: There is no harm in a manumission contract (kitabah) in exchange for servant slaves.

Al-Sha'bi said: There is no harm in making a slave a mukatab (one with a manumission contract) in exchange for servant slaves.

Sayyiduna Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) said: There is no harm in a man making his slave a mukatab (one with a manumission contract) in exchange for servant slaves.

Ikrimah bin Khalid al-Makhzumi said: A man made his slave a mukatab in exchange for two slaves who practise the same craft as his. The two of them brought their case to Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him). He gave this judgement: If he does not bring you two slaves who practise the same craft as his, return him to slavery.

Al-Zuhri said: There is no harm in making one's slave a mukatab in exchange for slaves, up to a fixed term.

Umar bin Abd al-Aziz saw no harm in a mukatabah in exchange for young servant slaves, hand to hand, and he disliked it on deferred terms.

That is the view of Qatadah.

Abdullah bin Abi Bakr bin Anas said: This is the mukatabah contract of Sirin, which we have with us. This is what Sayyiduna Anas bin Malik (may Allah be pleased with him) contracted with his slave: he made him a mukatab in exchange for such and such thousand and two slaves who do work like his.