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Emancipation

Hadith 3447

Chapter: Emancipation of a Shared Slave, Purchasing a Relative, and Emancipation During Illness

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Emancipation

Chapter: Emancipation of a Shared Slave, Purchasing a Relative, and Emancipation During Illness

Zujajat al-Masabih 3447Volume 2

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Al-Hasan, from Samurah, narrated that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: “Whoever owns a close relative who is a mahram, he is free.” [Narrated by Tirmidhi, Abu Dawud, and Ibn Majah] In Muslim’s narration from Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him), the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: “A child does not repay a parent except by finding him enslaved, buying him, and freeing him.”

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٣٤٤٧ - وَعَنِ الْحَسَنِ عَنْ ثمرة عَنْ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ قَالَ: «مَنْ مَلَكَ ذَا رَحِمٍ مَحْرَمٍ فَهُوَ حُرَّ». رَوَاهُ التَّرْمِذِيُّ وَأَبُوْ دَاوُدَ وَابْنُ مَاجَه. وَفِي رِوَايَةٍ لِمُسْلِمٍ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ * أَنَّ رَسُوْلَ اللهِ ﷺ قَالَ: «لَا يَجْزِي وَلَدٌ وَالِدًا إِلَّا أَنْ يَجِدَهُ مَمْلُوكًا فَيَشْتَرِيَهُ فَيُعْتِقَهُ.

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Urdu OCR, pending reviewNoor 4613Noor 4614
حضرت حسن بصری رحمة اللہ علیہ حضرت سمرہ رضی اللہ تعالیٰ عنہ سے اور وہ رسول اکرم صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم سے روایت کرتے ہیں کہ حضور علیہ الصلاۃ والسلام نے ارشاد فرمایا کہ جو کوئی شخص کسی نسبی محرم2 (نسبی حرمت والا) کا مالک ہوگا تو وہ آزاد ہوجائے گا۔ (ترمذی، ابوداؤد، ابن ماجہ) سیدنا ابوہریرہ رضی اللہ عنہ سے مروی ہے رسول اللہ صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم نے ارشاد فرمایا کہ کوئی لڑکا اپنے والد کو بدلہ نہیں دے سکتا سوائے اس کے کہ اگر اس کو غلامی کی حالت میں پائے تو وہ اس کو خرید کر آزاد کردے۔1 (مسلم شریف)
Possible references (unverified, pending editorial review)
  • Candidate: Sahih Muslim 1510 (unverified) 99% confidence
  • Candidate: Sunan Abi Dawud 3949 (unverified) 97% confidence
  • Candidate: Jami al-Tirmidhi 1365 (unverified) 96% confidence
  • Candidate: Sunan Ibn Majah 2524 (unverified) 95% confidence

Confidence and text similarity are not editorial verification.

Commentary and footnotes (2)

Note 1

Whoever owns a close relative who is a mahram, he is free

(1) The statement: “Whoever owns a close relative who is a mahram, he is free”: For us, if a man owns a close mahram relative, they are freed upon ownership without initiating emancipation. For Shafi‘i, they are not freed except in parental relations, like parents and children. For Malik, they are freed in sibling relations only. We have this hadith, and similar narrations from Umar and Ibn Mas‘ud, and many Successors. Non-mahram relatives, like cousins, or mahram non-relatives, like those by marriage or nursing, are not freed by consensus. This is taken from commentaries of Al-Kanz.

Note 2

And frees him

(2) The statement: “And frees him”: Some literalists inferred that a father is not freed upon his child’s ownership, as otherwise, emancipation would not follow purchase. They interpret the “fa” in “frees him” as sequential. The majority hold that he is freed upon ownership without initiating emancipation, and “frees him” means freeing by purchase, not by initiating emancipation. The sequence is in terms of ruling, not initiation. Thus, the “fa” in “frees him” indicates causality, meaning he is freed due to purchase, not requiring “I freed you” after purchase, but freed by the purchase itself. This is gathered from Al-Mirqat.