Maymun bin Mihran (may Allah have mercy on him) says that Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) made a kitabah contract with his slave. When the time came, the slave came bringing something. Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) asked: "Where is this from?" He said: "I have been begging from people and working." He said: "Would you feed me the dirt of people? Go, you are free, and this portion is also yours."
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب المكاتب / 21666
Sayyiduna Ali bin Abi Talib (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) regarding "And give them from the wealth of Allah which He has given you" [Surah al-Nur: 33]; he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "A quarter of the kitabah." In the narration of Abu Abdullah: "He should leave a quarter for the mukatab."
Hajjaj bin Muhammad added: Ibn Jurayj said: More than one of those who heard this hadith from Ata' bin al-Sa'ib told me that he did not attribute it to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him). Ibn Jurayj said: But he attributed it to him when narrating to me.
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب المكاتب / 21667
Abu Abd al-Rahman al-Sulami narrates from Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) regarding this saying of Allah Almighty, "And give them from the wealth of Allah which He has given you" [Surah al-Nur: 33], that it is a quarter of the kitabah.
This is the correct version: mawquf (a statement of Ali, not attributed to the Prophet).
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب المكاتب / 21668
Abu Abd al-Rahman al-Sulami narrates from Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) regarding this saying, "And give them from the wealth of Allah which He has given you" [Surah al-Nur: 33], that what is meant is a quarter.
In the narration of Abu Awanah: a quarter of the kitabah.
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب المكاتب / 21669
Sufyan narrates from Abd al-A'la: I came to Abu Abd al-Rahman al-Sulami (may Allah have mercy on him). He had made a kitabah contract with his slave for four thousand and stipulated that if he became unable (to pay), he would become a slave again, and whatever I have taken would be mine. Then he reduced one thousand of the four thousand for him and said: I heard your friend Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) say that what is meant by this saying of Allah Almighty, "And give them from the wealth of Allah which He has given you" [Surah al-Nur: 33], is a quarter.
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب المكاتب / 21670
Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) says that Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) made a kitabah contract with one of his slaves whose kunyah was Abu Umayyah. He came bringing his instalment. Umar said: "Take it back and seek help from it in your kitabah." He said: "O Commander of the Believers! If only you would leave it until it is the last instalment." He said: "I fear that I will not live to see that." Then he recited: "And give them from the wealth of Allah which He has given you" [Surah al-Nur: 33]. Ikrimah (may Allah have mercy on him) says: This was the first instalment paid in Islam.
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب المكاتب / 21671
Fadalah bin Abi Umayyah narrates from his father: Sayyiduna Umar bin al-Khattab (may Allah be pleased with him) made a kitabah contract with me, then asked Sayyidah Hafsah (may Allah be pleased with her) for two hundred to give, and helped him with it. The narrator says: I mentioned this to Ikrimah, and he recited this saying of Allah: "And give them from the wealth of Allah which He has given you" [Surah al-Nur: 33].
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب المكاتب / 21672
Nafi' (may Allah have mercy on him) narrates from Sayyiduna Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) that he made a kitabah contract with his slave for 35 thousand and reduced 5 thousand; I think this was his last instalment.
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب المكاتب / 21673
Makhramah bin Bukayr narrates from his father that Nafi' said: Abdullah bin Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) made a kitabah contract with his slave, fixing 35 thousand dirhams, and reduced 5 thousand dirhams from the last part of his kitabah. Nafi' did not mention whether he gave him anything besides the amount reduced.
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب المكاتب / 21674
Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) says regarding this saying of Allah, "And give them from the wealth of Allah which He has given you" [Surah al-Nur: 33]: Reduce (something) from the kitabah amount of your slaves.
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب المكاتب / 21675
Abu Sa'id (may Allah be pleased with him), the freed slave of Abu Usayd (may Allah be pleased with him), (narrates that) Abu Usayd made a kitabah contract with him, his slave, for one thousand two hundred dirhams. He says: I came with my kitabah amount, and he returned two hundred dirhams to me.
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب المكاتب / 21676
Al-Sha'bi (may Allah have mercy on him) says that Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) liked whatever amount he waived to be from the last part of the kitabah.
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب المكاتب / 21677