Musnad Ahmad 16010

Translation

✧ A group of men from Banu Sulaym came to the Messenger of God ﷺ and said, 'O Messenger of God, one of our companions has committed an offense that makes punishment obligatory.' The Messenger of God ﷺ said, 'Let him free a slave like himself; God, Mighty and Majestic, will ransom for every limb of the slave a limb of his from the Fire.'

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• ابن الملقن

  هذا الحديث صحيح

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  in مسند أحمد, p. 16186

Other narrations of this report

Sahih Muslim 1509d

Narrators

1. 1
   Wāthilah b. al-Asqaʿ al-Laythī

   a well-known Companiond. 83 AH, or 85 AH, or 86 AH
   وَاثِلَةُ بْنُ الْأَسْقَعِ اللَّيْثِيُّصحابي مشهور
   عن
2. 2
   Ibrāhīm b. Abī ʿAblah

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 151 AH, or 152 AH, or 153 AH
   إِبْرَاهِيمُ بْنُ أَبِي عَبْلَةَثقة
   حدثنا
3. 3
   Ziyād b. ʿAbdullāh b. ʿUlāthah

   Ibn Maʿīn declared him trustworthy (waththaqahu)d. between 161 AH and 170 AH
   ابْنُ عُلَاثَةَوثقه ابن معين
   أخبرنا
4. 4
   Abū al-Naḍr

   trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 205 AH, or: 207 AH
   أَبُو النَّضْرِ هَاشِمٌثقة ثبت
   حدثنا
5. 5
   Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a jurist (faqīh), an authority (ḥujjah).d. 241 AH, Abū Umayyah Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm al-Ṭarsūsī said: 242 AH, and no one followed him in his view
   أحمد بن حنبلثقة حافظ فقيه حجة

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