Sunan Abi Dawud 3938

Translation

If anyone emancipates his share in a slave, he is to be completely emancipated by his money if he has money. But if he has no money, a fair price for the slave should be fixed, and the slave is required to work for his master according to the proportion of his price, but he must not be overburdened. Abu Dawud said: In the version of both the narrators the words are "he will be required to work and must not be overburdened". This is the version of 'Ali.

Notes

• قَالَ أَبُو دَاوُدَ فِي حَدِيثِهِمَا جَمِيعًا فَاسْتُسْعِيَ غَيْرَ مَشْقُوقٍ عَلَيْهِ وَهَذَا لَفْظُ عَلِيٍّ

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What scholars said about it

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• Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr

  هو حديث يدور على قتادة عن النضر بن أنس عن بشير بن نهيك عن أبي هريرة واختلف أصحاب قتادة عليه في الاستسعاء وهو الموضع المخالف لحديث ابن عمر من رواية مالك وغيره واتفق شعبة وهمام على ترك ذكر السعاية في هذا الحديث والقول قولهم في قتادة عند جميع أهل العلم بالحديث إذا خالفهم في قتادة غيرهم وأصحاب قتادة الذين هم حجة فيه هؤلاء الثلاثة فإن اتفق هؤلاء الثلاثة لم يعرج على من خالفهم في قتادة وإن اختلفوا نظر فإن اتفق منهم اثنان وانفرد واحد فالقول قول الاثنين لا سيما إذا كان أحدهما شعبة وليس أحد بالجملة في قتادة مثل شعبة لأنه كان يوقفه على الإسناد والسماع وقد اتفق شعبة وهشام في هذا الحديث على سقوط ذكر الاستسعاء فيه وتابعهما همام وفي هذا تقوية لحديث ابن عمر وهو حديث مدني صحيح لا يقاس به غيره وهو أولى ما قيل به في هذا الباب

  machine translationThis is a hadith that revolves around Qatādah, from al-Naḍr b. Anas, from Bashīr b. Nahīk, from Abū Hurayrah. The students of Qatādah differed concerning him about the requirement that the slave work to earn his freedom (istisʿāyah), which is the point that contradicts the hadith of Ibn ʿUmar in the narration of Mālik and others. Shuʿbah and Hammām agreed on omitting the mention of working for freedom (siʿāyah) in this hadith, and the statement is theirs regarding Qatādah according to all the people of knowledge of hadith, when others contradict them concerning Qatādah. The students of Qatādah who are authoritative regarding him are these three. If these three agree, no attention is paid to whoever contradicts them regarding Qatādah. If they differ, it is examined: if two of them agree and one is alone, then the statement is that of the two, especially if one of them is Shuʿbah, and no one in general is like Shuʿbah regarding Qatādah, because he would make him stop and verify the chain and the hearing. Shuʿbah and Hishām agreed in this hadith on the omission of the mention of istisʿāyah, and Hammām followed them. In this is a strengthening of the hadith of Ibn ʿUmar, which is a sound (ṣaḥīḥ) Medinan hadith that no other is measured against, and it is the most worthy of what is said in this chapter. Report a problem

  in سنن أبي داود, p. 3934
• Dāraquṭnī

  وافقه هشام الدستوائي فلم يذكر الاستسعاء وشعبة وهشام أحفظ من رواه عن قتادة ورواه همام فجعل الاستسعاء من قول قتادة وفصله من كلام النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم ورواه ابن أبي عروبة وجرير بن حازم عن قتادة فجعل الاستسعاء من قول النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم وأحسبهما وهما فيه لمخالفة شعبة وهشام وهمام إياهما

  machine translationHishām al-Dastuwāʾī agreed with him and did not mention istisʿāyah. Shuʿbah and Hishām are the best memorizers of those who narrated it from Qatādah. Hammām narrated it and made istisʿāyah the statement of Qatādah, separating it from the words of the Prophet ﷺ. Ibn Abī ʿArūbah and Jarīr b. Ḥāzim narrated it from Qatādah and made istisʿāyah part of the statement of the Prophet ﷺ. I think they both erred in it, because Shuʿbah, Hishām and Hammām contradicted them. Report a problem

  in سنن أبي داود, p. 3934

Same hadith, other wordings

• Sunan Abu Dawud 3939عَنْ قَتَادَةَ بِإِسْنَادِ يَزِيدَ بْنِ زُرَيْعٍ وَمَعْنَاهُ وَذَكَرَا فِيهِ السِّعَايَةَ

Other narrations of this report

Musnad Ahmad 20709al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 21401

Narrators

1. 1
   Abū Hurayrah al-Dawsī

   The illustrious Companion, the memorizer among the Companions (ḥāfiẓ al-ṣaḥābah)d. 57 AH, or: 58 AH, or: 59 AH
   أَبُو هُرَيْرَةَ الدَّوْسِيُّالصحابي الجليل ، حافظ الصحابة
   عن
2. 2
   Bashīr b. Nahīk

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. between 91 and 100 AH
   بَشِيرِ بْنِ نَهِيكٍثقة
   عن
3. 3
   al-Naḍr b. Anas

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 100-odd AH
   النَّضْرِ بْنِ أَنَسٍثقة
   عن
4. 4
   Qatādah b. Diʿāmah

   trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 117 AH, or: 118 AH
   قَتَادَةَثقة ثبت
   عن
5. 5
   Saʿīd

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), author of several works; however, he committed concealment (tadlīs) very often and his memory became confused (ikhtalaṭa), and he was among the most reliable of people in narrating from Qatādahd. 150 AH or 155 AH or 156 AH or 157 AH
   سَعِيدِ بْنِ أَبِي عَرُوبَةَثقة حافظ ، له تصانيف ؛ لكنه كثير التدليس واختلط ، وكان من أثبت الناس في قتادة
   عن
6. 6
   Muḥammad b. Bishr

   trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 203 AH
   مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ بِشْرٍثقة حافظ
   حدثنا
7. 7
   ʿAlī b. ʿAbdillāh

   trustworthy (thiqah), firmly reliable (thabt), an imāmd. 234 AH, or: 235 AH, also said: 233 AH
   عَلِيُّ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللهِثقة ثبت إمام
   نا
8. 8
   Abū Dāwūd al-Sijistānī

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), the compiler of the Sunan and other works, one of the senior scholars.d. 275 AH
   أَبُو دَاوُدَ السِّجِسْتَانِيُّثقة ، حافظ , مصنف السنن وغيرها ، من كبار العلماء

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