Chapter 7.0

The virtue of manumitting one's father

باب فَضْلِ عِتْقِ الْوَالِدِ ‏‏

2 hadiths

Sahih Muslim, 1510 asahih

Chain of narration · Isnād

Each narrator name opens their biography and classical source evidence.

4 transmitters

Narrated by Abu Bakr bin Abi ShaybafromZuhayr bin HarbfromJarir bin 'Abdul Hameed al-RazifromAbu Hurairah

Hadith text · Matn

حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ، وَزُهَيْرُ بْنُ حَرْبٍ، قَالاَ حَدَّثَنَا جَرِيرٌ، عَنْ سُهَيْلٍ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ، قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم ‏"‏ لاَ يَجْزِي وَلَدٌ وَالِدًا إِلاَّ أَنْ يَجِدَهُ مَمْلُوكًا فَيَشْتَرِيَهُ فَيُعْتِقَهُ ‏"‏ ‏.‏ وَفِي رِوَايَةِ ابْنِ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ ‏"‏ وَلَدٌ وَالِدَهُ ‏"‏ ‏.‏

English translation

Abu Huraira (Allah be pleased with him) reported Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying:

A son does not repay what he owes his father unless he buys him (the father) in case he is a slave and then emancipates him. In the narration transmitted by Ibn Abu Shaiba there is a slight change of words.

Sahih Muslim, 1510 bsahih

Chain of narration · Isnād

Each narrator name opens their biography and classical source evidence.

7 transmitters

Narrated by Abu Karayb, Muhammad bin al-'Ala'fromWaki' bin al-JarrahfromMuhammad bin 'Abdullah bin Numayrfrom'Abdullah bin Numayrfrom'Amr bin Muhammad bin Bukayr (al-Naqid)fromMuhammad bin 'Abdullah bin al-ZubairfromSufyan bin Sa‘id Ath-Thawri

Hadith text · Matn

‏ وَلَدٌ وَالِدَهُ ‏

‏ ‏.‏

English translation

A hadith like this has been narrated on the authority of Suhail with the same chain of transmitters.

Original Arabic chain wording

وَحَدَّثَنَاهُ أَبُو كُرَيْبٍ، حَدَّثَنَا وَكِيعٌ، ح وَحَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ نُمَيْرٍ، حَدَّثَنَا أَبِي ح، وَحَدَّثَنِي عَمْرٌو النَّاقِدُ، حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو أَحْمَدَ الزُّبَيْرِيُّ، كُلُّهُمْ عَنْ سُفْيَانَ، عَنْ سُهَيْلٍ، بِهَذَا الإِسْنَادِ مِثْلَهُ وَقَالُوا ‏