مسند أحمد بن حنبل
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Musnad Ahmad ibn Hanbal
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Chapter: Musnad of Jābir ibn ʿAbdillāh al-Anṣārī (may Allāh be pleased with him)
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مُسْنَدُ جَابِرِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ الْأَنْصَارِيِّ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُ
Three-Narrator Ahadith 37
Jābir (رضي الله عنه) reported:
“The Prophet (ﷺ) sold a mudabbar slave. [Nuʿaym] ibn al-Naḥḥām purchased him. He was a Coptic slave who died the previous year during the reign of [ʿAbdullāh] ibn al-Zubayr. A man from the Anṣār had declared him a mudabbar, and he [the Anṣārī man] had no other property besides him.”
Reference:
Musnad Aḥmad 37
حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ عَمْرٍو، سَمِعَ جَابِرًا: «بَاعَ النَّبِيُّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ عَبْدًا مُدَبَّرًا، فَاشْتَرَاهُ ابْنُ النَّحَّامِ، عَبْدًا قِبْطِيًّا مَاتَ عَامَ الْأَوَّلِ فِي إِمْرَةِ ابْنِ الزُّبَيْرِ، دَبَّرَهُ رَجُلٌ مِنَ الْأَنْصَارِ وَلَمْ يَكُنْ لَهُ مَالٌ غَيْرُهُ.»
| Grade: | Ṣaḥīḥ |
isnād meets the conditions of Muslim (al-Arnaʾūṭ, no. 14311).
Isnād and Rijāl: Imām Aḥmad ← Sufyān ibn ʿUyayna ← ʿAmr ibn Dīnār ← Jābir ibn ʿAbdillāh (same chain as Ḥadīth 31). Sufyān ibn ʿUyayna: thiqah ḥāfiẓ faqīh imām. ʿAmr ibn Dīnār: thiqah ḥāfiẓ. Jābir ibn ʿAbdillāh: Companion. Takhrīj: Muslim, no. 997; Abū Dāwūd, no. 3957; al-Tirmidhī, no. 1219; al-Nasāʾī, no. 4650; Ibn Mājah, no. 2513. A mudabbar is a slave whom his owner has declared will be freed upon the owner’s death (tadbīr). The narration in al-Bukhārī (no. 2141) adds that the man was in need of money; the Prophet (ﷺ) asked: “Who will buy this slave?” and Nuʿaym ibn ʿAbdullāh ibn al-Naḥḥām purchased him for eight hundred dirhams, which the Prophet (ﷺ) handed to the Anṣārī. Scholars discuss whether tadbīr can be revoked and whether the mudabbar can be sold; this ḥadīth is the main evidence for the permissibility of selling a mudabbar, used especially by the Mālikī and Shāfiʿī schools, while the Ḥanafī school holds tadbīr is irrevocable.
Isnād and Rijāl: Imām Aḥmad ← Sufyān ibn ʿUyayna ← ʿAmr ibn Dīnār ← Jābir ibn ʿAbdillāh (same chain as Ḥadīth 31). Sufyān ibn ʿUyayna: thiqah ḥāfiẓ faqīh imām. ʿAmr ibn Dīnār: thiqah ḥāfiẓ. Jābir ibn ʿAbdillāh: Companion. Takhrīj: Muslim, no. 997; Abū Dāwūd, no. 3957; al-Tirmidhī, no. 1219; al-Nasāʾī, no. 4650; Ibn Mājah, no. 2513. A mudabbar is a slave whom his owner has declared will be freed upon the owner’s death (tadbīr). The narration in al-Bukhārī (no. 2141) adds that the man was in need of money; the Prophet (ﷺ) asked: “Who will buy this slave?” and Nuʿaym ibn ʿAbdullāh ibn al-Naḥḥām purchased him for eight hundred dirhams, which the Prophet (ﷺ) handed to the Anṣārī. Scholars discuss whether tadbīr can be revoked and whether the mudabbar can be sold; this ḥadīth is the main evidence for the permissibility of selling a mudabbar, used especially by the Mālikī and Shāfiʿī schools, while the Ḥanafī school holds tadbīr is irrevocable.
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