Narrated `Aisha: `Utba (bin Abi Waqqas) said to his brother Sa`d, The son of the slave girl of Zam`a is my son, so be his custodian. So when it was the year of the Conquest of Mecca, Sa`d took that child and said, He is my nephew, and my brother told me to be his custodian. On that, 'Abu bin Zam`a got up and said, 'but the child is my brother, and the son of my father's slave girl as he was born on his bed. So they both went to the Prophet. Sa`d said, O Allah's Apostle! (This is) the son of my brother and he told me to be his custodian. Then 'Abu bin Zam`a said, (But he is) my brother and the son of the slave girl of my father, born on his bed. The Prophet said, This child is for you. O 'Abu bin Zam`a, as the child is for the owner of the bed, and the adulterer receives the stones. He then ordered (his wife) Sauda bint Zam`a to cover herself before that boy as he noticed the boy's resemblance to `Utba. Since then the boy had never seen Sauda till he died.
Read More..Narrated Abu Huraira: The Prophet said, The boy is for the owner of the bed.
Read More..Narrated `Aisha: I bought Barira (a female slave). The Prophet said (to me), Buy her as the Wala' is for the manumitted. Once she was given a sheep (in charity). The Prophet said, It (the sheep) is a charitable gift for her (Barira) and a gift for us. Al-Hakam said, Barira's husband was a free man. Ibn `Abbas said, 'When I saw him, he was a slave.
Read More..Narrated Ibn `Umar: The Prophet said, The Wala' is for the manumitted (of the slave).
Read More..Narrated `Abdullah: The Muslims did not free slaves as Sa'iba, but the People of the Pre-lslamic Period of Ignorance used to do so.
Read More..Narrated Al-Aswad: `Aisha bought Barira in order to manumit her, but her masters stipulated that her Wala' (after her death) would be for them. `Aisha said, O Allah's Apostle! I have bought Barira in order to manumit her, but her masters stipulated that her Wala' will be for them. The Prophet said, Manumit her as the Wala is for the one who manumits (the slave), or said, The one who pays her price. Then `Aisha bought and manumitted her. After that, Barira was given the choice (by the Prophet) (to stay with her husband or leave him). She said, If he gave me so much and so much (money) I would not stay with him. (Al-Aswad added: Her husband was a free man.) The sub-narrator added: The series of the narrators of Al-Aswad's statement is incomplete. The statement of Ibn `Abbas, i.e., when I saw him he was a slave, is more authentic.
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