| Arabic reference | : Book 15, Hadith 3375 |
Malik related to me that he had heard that Abdullah ibn Umar was asked whether a slave could be bought on the specific condition that it was to be used to fulfil the obligation of freeing a slave, and he said, "No."
Malik said, "That is the best of what I have heard on the obligation of freeing slaves. Someone who has to set a slave free because of an obligation on him, may not buy one on the condition that he sets it free because if he does that, whatever he buys is not completely a slave because he has reduced its price by the condition he has made of setting it free."
Malik added, "There is no harm, however, in someone buying a person expressly to set him free."
Malik said, "The best of what I have heard on the obligation of freeing slaves is that it is not permitted to free a christian or a jew to fulfil it, and one does not free a mukatab or a mudabbar or an umm walad or a slave to be freed after a certain number of years, or a blind person. There is no harm in freeing a christian, jew, or magian voluntarily, because Allah, the Blessed, the Exalted, said in His Book, 'either as a favour then or by ransom,' (Sura 47 ayat 4) The favour is setting free."
Malik said, "As for obligations of freeing slaves which Allah has mentioned in the Book, one only frees a mumin slave for them."
Malik said, "It is like that in feeding poor people for kaffara. One must only feed muslims and one does not feed anyone outside of the deen of Islam."
| USC-MSA web (English) reference | : Book 38, Hadith 12 |
| Arabic reference | : Book 38, Hadith 1477 |
| Grade: | Hasan (Darussalam) |
| Reference | : Jami` at-Tirmidhi 773 |
| In-book reference | : Book 8, Hadith 92 |
| English translation | : Vol. 2, Book 3, Hadith 773 |
Other chains report similar narrations.
| Grade: | Sahih (Darussalam) |
| Reference | : Jami` at-Tirmidhi 2446 |
| In-book reference | : Book 37, Hadith 32 |
| English translation | : Vol. 4, Book 11, Hadith 2446 |
[Abu 'Eisa said:] This Hadith is Hasan Sahih Gharib. We do not know of it as a Hadith of 'Umar, except through the narration of 'Ikrimah bin 'Ammar, from Abu Zumail, and Abu Zumail's name is Simãk Al-Hanafi. And this was on the Day of Badr.
| Grade: | Sahih (Darussalam) |
| Reference | : Jami` at-Tirmidhi 3081 |
| In-book reference | : Book 47, Hadith 133 |
| English translation | : Vol. 5, Book 44, Hadith 3081 |
| Grade: | Hasan (Darussalam) |
| Reference | : Jami` at-Tirmidhi 3215 |
| In-book reference | : Book 47, Hadith 267 |
| English translation | : Vol. 5, Book 44, Hadith 3215 |
[Al-Bukhari and Muslim].
| Reference | : Riyad as-Salihin 74 |
| In-book reference | : Introduction, Hadith 74 |
| Reference | : Riyad as-Salihin 1522 |
| In-book reference | : Book 17, Hadith 12 |
| Grade: | Lts isnad is Qawi] (Darussalam) |
| Reference | : Musnad Ahmad 706 |
| In-book reference | : Book 5, Hadith 139 |
| Grade: | Isnād Hasan (Zubair `Aliza'i) | إسنادہ حسن (زبیر علی زئی) | حكم : |
| Reference | : Mishkat al-Masabih 29 |
| In-book reference | : Book 1, Hadith 27 |
| لم تتمّ دراسته (الألباني) | حكم : |
| Reference | : Mishkat al-Masabih 3553 |
| In-book reference | : Book 16, Hadith 99 |
| صَحِيح (الألباني) | حكم : |
| Reference | : Mishkat al-Masabih 978 |
| In-book reference | : Book 4, Hadith 400 |
| Grade: | Hasan (Darussalam) |
| Reference | : Sunan Ibn Majah 150 |
| In-book reference | : Introduction, Hadith 150 |
| English translation | : Vol. 1, Book 1, Hadith 150 |
| Reference | : Al-Adab Al-Mufrad 972 |
| In-book reference | : Book 42, Hadith 8 |
| English translation | : Book 42, Hadith 972 |
| Reference | : Bulugh al-Maram 566 |
| In-book reference | : Book 3, Hadith 34 |
| English translation | : Book 3, Hadith 590 |
| Arabic reference | : Book 1, Hadith 187 |
| Arabic reference | : Book 5, Hadith 1961 |
| Arabic reference | : Book 7, Hadith 648 |
| Arabic reference | : Book 29, Hadith 5101 |
| Arabic reference | : Book 29, Hadith 5991 |
| Arabic reference | : Book 29, Hadith 6916 |
| Arabic reference | : Book 12, Hadith 20755 |
| Arabic reference | : Book 18, Hadith 25956 |
| Arabic reference | : Book 19, Hadith 27338 |
| Arabic reference | : Book 20, Hadith 28300 |
| Arabic reference | : Book 32, Hadith 33191 |
| Arabic reference | : Book 38, Hadith 36587 |
| Arabic reference | : Book 39, Hadith 37180 |
| Arabic reference | : Book 14, Hadith 2824 |
| Arabic reference | : Book 25, Hadith 3867 |
| Arabic reference | : Book 4, Hadith 8030 |
| Arabic reference | : Book 10, Hadith 13030 |
| Arabic reference | : Book 15, Hadith 3413 |
| Arabic reference | : Book 16, Hadith 3880 |
| Arabic reference | : Book 16, Hadith 4147 |
| Arabic reference | : Book 60, Hadith 7997 |
| Arabic reference | : Book 64, Hadith 10409 |
| Grade: | Hasan (Darussalam) |
| Reference | : Sunan an-Nasa'i 3927 |
| In-book reference | : Book 35b, Hadith 72 |
| English translation | : Vol. 4, Book 35, Hadith 3959 |
Narrated Ibn `Abbas:
Abu Sufyan narrated to me personally, saying, "I set out during the Truce that had been concluded between me and Allah's Apostle. While I was in Sham, a letter sent by the Prophet was brought to Heraclius. Dihya Al-Kalbi had brought and given it to the governor of Busra, and the latter forwarded it to Heraclius. Heraclius said, 'Is there anyone from the people of this man who claims to be a prophet?' The people replied, 'Yes.' So I along with some of Quraishi men were called and we entered upon Heraclius, and we were seated in front of him. Then he said, 'Who amongst you is the nearest relative to the man who claims to be a prophet?' So they made me sit in front of him and made my companions sit behind me. Then he called upon his translator and said (to him). 'Tell them ( i.e. Abu Sufyan's companions) that I am going to ask him (i.e. Abu Sufyan) regarding that man who claims to be a prophet. So, if he tell me a lie, they should contradict him (instantly).' By Allah, had I not been afraid that my companions would consider me a liar, I would have told lies. Heraclius then said to his translator, 'Ask him: What is his (i.e. the Prophet's) family status amongst you? I said, 'He belongs to a noble family amongst us." Heraclius said, 'Was any of his ancestors a king?' I said, 'No.' He said, 'Did you ever accuse him of telling lies before his saying what he has said?' I said, 'No.' He said, 'Do the nobles follow him or the poor people?' I said, 'It is the poor who followed him.' He said, 'Is the number of his follower increasing or decreasing?' I said, 'The are increasing.' He said, 'Does anyone renounce his religion (i.e. Islam) after embracing it, being displeased with it?' I said, 'No.' He said, 'Did you fight with him?' I replied, 'Yes.' He said, 'How was your fighting with him?' I said, 'The fighting between us was undecided and victory was shared by him and us by turns. He inflicts casualties upon us and we inflict casualties upon him.' He said, 'Did he ever betray?' I said, 'No, but now we are away from him in this truce and we do not know what he will do in it" Abu Sufyan added, "By Allah, I was not able to insert in my speech a word (against him) except that. Heraclius said, 'Did anybody else (amongst you) ever claimed the same (i.e. Islam) before him? I said, 'No.' Then Heraclius told his translator to tell me (i.e. Abu Sufyan), 'I asked you about his family status amongst you, and you told me that ...
| Reference | : Sahih al-Bukhari 4553 |
| In-book reference | : Book 65, Hadith 75 |
| USC-MSA web (English) reference | : Vol. 6, Book 60, Hadith 75 |
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| صَحِيح (الألباني) | حكم : |
| Reference | : Mishkat al-Masabih 2222 |
| In-book reference | : Book 8, Hadith 112 |
| Arabic reference | : Book 29, Hadith 6085 |
| Arabic reference | : Book 29, Hadith 6593 |
| Arabic reference | : Book 48, Hadith 8562 |
| Arabic reference | : Book 2, Hadith 3615 |
| Arabic reference | : Book 4, Hadith 228 |
| Arabic reference | : Book 11, Hadith 2983 |
| Arabic reference | : Book 62, Hadith 6662 |
| Arabic reference | : Book 21, Hadith 2599 |
| Arabic reference | : Book 25, Hadith 2950 |
| Arabic reference | : Book 25, Hadith 3681 |