صحيح مسلم
Sahih Muslim
كتاب القسامة
The Book of Oaths
باب صُحْبَةِ الْمَمَالِيكِ وَكَفَّارَةِ مَنْ لَطَمَ عَبْدَهُ:
Chapter: Treatment of slaves, and the expiation of one who slaps his slave
Hadith 1658
This hadith is listed as number 4301 in Maktaba Shamila
حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ ، حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ نُمَيْرٍ . ح وحَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ نُمَيْرٍ وَاللَّفْظُ لَهُ ، حَدَّثَنَا أَبِي ، حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ ، عَنْ سَلَمَةَ بْنِ كُهَيْلٍ ، عَنْ مُعَاوِيَةَ بْنِ سُوَيْدٍ ، قَالَ : " لَطَمْتُ مَوْلًى لَنَا ، فَهَرَبْتُ ثُمَّ جِئْتُ قُبَيْلَ الظُّهْرِ ، فَصَلَّيْتُ خَلْفَ أَبِي فَدَعَاهُ وَدَعَانِي ، ثُمَّ قَالَ : امْتَثِلْ مِنْهُ فَعَفَا ، ثُمَّ قَالَ : كُنَّا بَنِي مُقَرِّنٍ عَلَى عَهْدِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ لَيْسَ لَنَا إِلَّا خَادِمٌ وَاحِدَةٌ ، فَلَطَمَهَا أَحَدُنَا فَبَلَغَ ذَلِكَ النَّبِيَّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ فَقَالَ : أَعْتِقُوهَا ، قَالُوا : لَيْسَ لَهُمْ خَادِمٌ غَيْرُهَا ، قَالَ : " ، فَإِذَا اسْتَغْنَوْا عَنْهَا فَلْيُخَلُّوا سَبِيلَهَا " .
Mu'awiyah bin Suwaid reported: I slapped a slave belonging to us and then fled away. I came back just before noon and offered prayer behind my father. He called him (the slave) and me and said: Do as he has done to you. He granted pardon. He (my father) then said: We belonged to the family of Muqarrin during the lifetime of Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him, and had only one slave-girl and one of us slapped her. This news reached Allah's Apostle (ﷺ) and he said: Set her free. They (the members of the family) said: There is no other servant except she. Thereupon he said: Then employ her and when you can afford to dispense with her services, then set her free.
