Sayyiduna Abu Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) says: I was beating my slave with a whip when I heard a voice behind me: "Abu Mas'ud! Know." Because of anger I did not recognise the voice. Then the same voice came again. When he came near, I saw that it was the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), and he was saying: "O Abu Mas'ud! Allah has more power over you than you have over your slave." He says: I threw the whip from my hand and said: After today I will never beat my slave.
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب النفقات / 15794
Sayyiduna Abu Mas'ud al-Ansari (may Allah be pleased with him) said: I was beating a slave of mine when I heard a voice behind me: "O Abu Mas'ud, know!" He said it three times: "Allah has more power over you than this." I looked, and it was the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him). I said: O Messenger of Allah, this slave is now free for the sake of Allah. Then the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Had you not done so, the Fire of Hell would have touched you."
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب النفقات / 15795
Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) freed a slave, then picked up a stick from the ground and said: My reward from this is only this much. Then he said: I heard the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) say: "Whoever slaps his slave, or beats him with a prescribed punishment for an offence he did not commit, its expiation is that he set him free."
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب النفقات / 15796
Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) said: Abu al-Qasim, the Prophet of repentance (peace and blessings be upon him), narrated to me: "Whoever accuses his slave who is innocent of what he said about him, the prescribed punishment will be carried out on that master on the Day of Resurrection, unless it is as he said."
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب النفقات / 15797
Abdullah bin Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) said that a man came to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) and said: O Messenger of Allah, my slave behaves very badly and does wrong. He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Forgive him seventy (70) times a day."
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب النفقات / 15798
Sayyiduna Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) said that a man asked in the presence of the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him): How often should we pardon servants? He repeated this question three times, then he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Seventy times in a day."
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب النفقات / 15799
Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) said that the words of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) as he was departing this world were: "The prayer, the prayer, and fear Allah regarding your slaves."
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب النفقات / 15800
Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her) said that he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Jibril kept enjoining me so much regarding the neighbour that I feared he would be made a sharer in inheritance, and he kept enjoining me so much regarding slaves that I feared a term would be fixed for them after which they would become free on their own."
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب النفقات / 15801