Declaring a Fugitive Slave and Its Ruling

Hazrat Ibn Abi Mulaika and Hazrat Amr bin Dinar (may Allah have mercy on them) say that we have always heard that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) gave the ruling of one dinar or ten dirhams regarding a runaway slave who is caught outside the Haram.

It is narrated from Hazrat Abu Amr al-Shaibani (may Allah have mercy on him) that a man found a runaway slave in Ain al-Tamr, and he brought him to Hazrat Ibn Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him). Hazrat Ibn Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) fixed forty dirhams for him.

It is narrated from Hazrat Saeed bin Al-Musayyib that Hazrat Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) fixed the wages of a runaway slave as one dinar or twelve dirhams.

It is also narrated in a similar manner from Hazrat Ali (may Allah be pleased with him).

It is narrated from Ibn Abi Mulaykah that Umar bin Abdul Aziz (may Allah have mercy on him) ruled that the wage for capturing a runaway slave who has been caught from a distance of three days' journey is three dinars.

Hazrat Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) gave the verdict of forty dirhams regarding the wages of a runaway slave.

Ibrahim (may Allah have mercy on him) said: There is no harm in giving a wage for capturing a runaway slave.

Ibrahim (may Allah have mercy on him) said that a Muslim will return a runaway slave (by capturing him) to a Muslim.

Hazrat Abu Ishaq (may Allah have mercy on him) says that during the time of Hazrat Muawiyah (may Allah be pleased with him), I received forty dirhams as wages.

Hazrat Shurayh (may Allah have mercy on him) says that if a slave is caught within the city, the wage is ten dirhams, and if he is caught outside the city, the wage is forty dirhams.

23348 - From Sufyan, from Jabir, from Al-Qasim, from Shurayh, that he used to say: If it is taken (in) (1) the city, then ten dirhams, (and if) (2) it is taken (outside) (3) (of) (4) the city, (then forty) (5) dirhams.

Hazrat Hakam (may Allah have mercy on him) says that if a runaway slave is caught, then a Muslim should return him to a Muslim without taking any wages.

Hazrat Ibn Abi Mulaika (may Allah be pleased with him) and Hazrat Amr bin Dinar (may Allah be pleased with him) state that the Prophet (peace be upon him) fixed one dinar as the wage for a runaway slave when he is caught and brought back from outside the Haram.

Hazrat Abdul Kareem (may Allah have mercy on him) says that I asked Hazrat Abdullah bin Uqbah (may Allah have mercy on him): Do you give wages to a runaway slave? He replied: Yes! I asked: And to a free man? He replied: No.

Hazrat Qasim (may Allah have mercy on him) says that if you do not pay the wage for catching it, then leave it where you caught it.