al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 21661
✧ A man's kitaba of his male or female slave for two or more installments for sound wealth
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( أَخْبَرَنَا ) أَبُو الْحُسَيْنِ بْنُ الْفَضْلِ الْقَطَّانُ بِبَغْدَادَ، أَنْبَأَ عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ جَعْفَرٍ، ثَنَا يَعْقُوبُ بْنُ سُفْيَانَ حَدَّثَنِي أَبُو بِشْرٍ، ثَنَا سَعِيدُ بْنُ عَامِرٍ، ثَنَا جُوَيْرِيَةُ بْنُ أَسْمَاءَ عَنْ مُسْلِمِ بْنِ أَبِي مَرْيَمَ عَنْ رَجُلٍ قَالَ:
كُنْتُ مَمْلُوكًا لِعُثْمَانَ ؓ قَالَ بَعَثَنِي عُثْمَانُ ؓ فِي تِجَارَةٍ فَقَدِمْتُ عَلَيْهِ فَأَحْمَدَ وِلَايَتِي قَالَ فَقُمْتُ بَيْنَ يَدَيْهِ ذَاتَ يَوْمٍ فَقُلْتُ يَا أَمِيرَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ أَسْأَلُكَ الْكِتَابَةَ فَقَطَّبَ فَقَالَ نَعَمْ وَلَوْلَا آيَةٌ فِي كِتَابِ اللهِ مَا فَعَلْتُ أُكَاتِبُكَ عَلَى مِائَةِ أَلْفٍ عَلَى أَنْ تَعُدَّهَا لِي فِي عَدَّتَيْنِ وَاللهِ لَا أَغُضُّكَ مِنْهَا دِرْهَمًا، قَالَ فَخَرَجْتُ مِنْ عِنْدِهِ فَلَقِيَنِي الزُّبَيْرُ بْنُ الْعَوَّامِ ؓ فَقَالَ: مَا الَّذِي أَرَى بِكَ ؟ قُلْتُ: كَانَ أَمِيرُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ بَعَثَنِي فِي تِجَارَةٍ فَقَدِمْتُ عَلَيْهِ فَأَحْمَدَ وِلَايَتِي فَقُمْتُ إِلَيْهِ فَقُلْتُ يَا أَمِيرَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ أَسْأَلُكَ الْكِتَابَةَ قَالَ فَقَطَّبَ، قَالَ فَقَالَ نَعَمْ وَلَوْلَا آيَةٌ فِي كِتَابِ اللهِ مَا فَعَلْتُ أُكَاتِبُكَ عَلَى مِائَةِ أَلْفٍ عَلَى أَنْ تَعُدَّهَا لِي فِي عَدَّتَيْنِ وَاللهِ لَا أَغُضُّكَ مِنْهَا دِرْهَمًا قَالَ فَقَالَ انْطَلِقْ قَالَ فَرَدَّنِي إِلَيْهِ فَقَامَ بَيْنَ يَدَيْهِ فَقَالَ يَا أَمِيرَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ فُلَانٌ كَاتَبْتَهُ قَالَ فَقَطَّبَ، وَقَالَ نَعَمْ وَلَوْلَا آيَةٌ فِي كِتَابِ اللهِ مَا فَعَلْتُ أُكَاتِبُهُ عَلَى مِائَةِ أَلْفٍ عَلَى أَنْ يَعُدَّهَا لِي فِي عَدَّتَيْنِ وَاللهِ لَا أَغُضُّهُ مِنْهَا دِرْهَمًا قَالَ فَغَضِبَ الزُّبَيْرُ فَقَالَ لِلهِ لَأَمْثُلَنَّ بَيْنَ يَدَيْكَ فَإِنَّمَا أَطْلُبُ إِلَيْكَ حَاجَةً تَحُولُ دُونَهَا بِيَمِينٍ قَالَ فَضَرَبَ لَا أَدْرِي قَالَ كَتِفِي أَوْ قَالَ عَضُدِي ثُمَّ قَالَ كَاتِبْهُ قَالَ فَكَاتَبْتُهُ فَانْطَلَقَ بِيَ الزُّبَيْرُ إِلَى أَهْلِهِ فَأَعْطَانِي مِائَةَ أَلْفٍ ثُمَّ قَالَ انْطَلِقْ فَاطْلُبْ فِيهَا مِنْ فَضْلِ اللهِ فَإِنْ غَلَبَكَ أَمْرٌ فَأَدِّ إِلَى عُثْمَانَ مَا لَهُ مِنْهَا فَانْطَلَقْتُ فَطَلَبْتُ فِيهَا مِنْ فَضْلِ اللهِ وَأَدَّيْتُ إِلَى عُثْمَانَ ؓ مَالَهُ وَإِلَى الزُّبَيْرِ ؓ مَالَهُ وَفَضَلَ فِي يَدِي ثَمَانُونَ أَلْفًا
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Abū al-Ḥusayn b. al-Faḍl al-Qaṭṭān Bibaghdād Anbaʾ ʿAbdullāh b. Jaʿfar
- Yaʿqūb b. Sufyān
- Abū Bishr
- Saʿīd b. ʿĀmir
- Jūwayriyah b. Asmāʾ
- Muslim b. Abū Maryam
- a man
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I was a slave of ʿUthmān (may God be pleased with him). He said: ʿUthmān sent me out on a trading venture, and I came back to him, and he praised my management. He said: One day I stood before him and said, "O Commander of the Faithful, I ask you for a contract of manumission (kitābah)." He frowned and said, "Yes, and were it not for a verse in the Book of God I would not do it. I will contract with you for a hundred thousand, on condition that you count it out to me in two payments. By God, I will not reduce a single dirham of it for you." He said: I left him, and al-Zubayr b. al-ʿAwwām (may God be pleased with him) met me and said, "What is it that I see in you?" I said, "The Commander of the Faithful sent me out on a trading venture, and I came back to him, and he praised my management. I stood before him and said, 'O Commander of the Faithful, I ask you for a contract of manumission.'" He said: He frowned, and said, "Yes, and were it not for a verse in the Book of God I would not do it. I will contract with you for a hundred thousand, on condition that you count it out to me in two payments. By God, I will not reduce a single dirham of it for you." He said: al-Zubayr said, "Go." He said: Then he brought me back to him, and stood before him and said, "O Commander of the Faithful, so-and-so, you have contracted with him?" He said: He frowned and said, "Yes, and were it not for a verse in the Book of God I would not do it. I will contract with him for a hundred thousand, on condition that he count it out to me in two payments. By God, I will not reduce a single dirham of it for him." He said: al-Zubayr became angry and said, "For God's sake, I will stand before you, for I only ask of you a need and you block it with an oath!" He said: Then he struck me, I do not know whether he said my shoulder or my upper arm, and then said, "Make the contract with him." He said: So I made the contract with him. Then al-Zubayr took me to his household and gave me a hundred thousand, and said, "Go and seek with it from the bounty of God. If a matter overwhelms you, pay ʿUthmān what is due to him from it." So I went and sought with it from the bounty of God, and I paid ʿUthmān (may God be pleased with him) what was due to him and al-Zubayr (may God be pleased with him) what was due to him, and eighty thousand remained in my hand.
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- One of the ten promised Paradised. 36 AHالزُّبَيْرُ بْنُ الْعَوَّامِأحد العشرة المشهود لهم بالجنةقال
- رجلعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. during the governorship of Abū Jaʿfarمُسْلِمِ بْنِ أَبِي مَرْيَمَثقةعن
- truthful (ṣadūq)d. 173 AH or 174 AHجُوَيْرِيَةُ بْنُ أَسْمَاءَصدوقحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah), righteous (ṣāliḥ)d. 208 AH or 210 AHسَعِيدُ بْنُ عَامِرٍثقة صالححدثنا
- truthful (ṣadūq)d. between 211 and 220 AHأَبُو بِشْرٍصدوقحدثني
- trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. Ibn Abī Ḥātim and others said: 277 AH. Ibn Ḥibbān said: 280 AH or 281 AHيَعْقُوبُ بْنُ سُفْيَانَثقة حافظحدثنا
- d. 347 AHعَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ جَعْفَرٍأنبأ
- d. 415 AHأَبُو الْحُسَيْنِ بْنُ الْفَضْلِ الْقَطَّانُأخبرنا
- d. 458 AHالبيهقي
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