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Sahih al-Bukhari 2545

"Slaves are your brothers, so feed them with the like of what you eat."

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حَدَّثَنَا آدَمُ بْنُ أَبِي إِيَاسٍ حَدَّثَنَا شُعْبَةُ حَدَّثَنَا وَاصِلٌ الأَحْدَبُ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ الْمَعْرُورَ بْنَ سُوَيْدٍ قَالَ

رَأَيْتُ أَبَا ذَرٍّ الْغِفَارِيَّ ؓ وَعَلَيْهِ حُلَّةٌ وَعَلَى غُلاَمِهِ حُلَّةٌ فَسَأَلْنَاهُ عَنْ ذَلِكَ فَقَالَ إِنِّي سَابَبْتُ رَجُلاً فَشَكَانِي إِلَى النَّبِيِّ ﷺ فَقَالَ لِيَ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ أَعَيَّرْتَهُ بِأُمِّهِ ثُمَّ قَالَ إِنَّ إِخْوَانَكُمْ خَوَلُكُمْ جَعَلَهُمُ اللَّهُ تَحْتَ أَيْدِيكُمْ فَمَنْ كَانَ أَخُوهُ تَحْتَ يَدِهِ فَلْيُطْعِمْهُ مِمَّا يَأْكُلُ وَلْيُلْبِسْهُ مِمَّا يَلْبَسُ وَلاَ تُكَلِّفُوهُمْ مَا يَغْلِبُهُمْ فَإِنْ كَلَّفْتُمُوهُمْ مَا يَغْلِبُهُمْ فَأَعِينُوهُمْ

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. Ādam b. Abū Iyās
  2. Shuʿbah
  3. Wāṣil al-Aḥdab
  4. al-Maʿrūr b. Sūwayd

I saw Abu Dhar Al-Ghifari wearing a cloak, and his slave, too, was wearing a cloak. We asked him about that (i.e. how both were wearing similar cloaks). He replied, "Once I abused a man and he complained of me to the Prophet ﷺ. The Prophet ﷺ asked me, 'Did you abuse him by slighting his mother?' He added, 'Your slaves are your brethren upon whom Allah has given you authority. So, if one has one's brethren under one's control, one should feed them with the like of what one eats and clothe them with the like of what one wears. You should not overburden them with what they cannot bear, and if you do so, help them (in their hard job).

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Other narrations of this report

Sahih al-Bukhari 30Sunan Ibn Majah 3690Musnad Ahmad 21483Musnad Ahmad 21515al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 15876Musnad al-Bazzar 3930

Narrators

  1. Abū Dharr al-Ghifārī
    Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. 31 AH, or: 32 AH
    أَبُو ذَرٍّ الْغِفَارِيُّالصحابي
    قال
  2. al-Maʿrūr b. Suwayd
    trustworthy (thiqah)d. between 81 AH, and: 100 AH
    الْمَعْرُورَ بْنَ سُوَيْدٍثقة
    سمعت
  3. Wāṣil
    trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 120 AH, Ibn Ḥibbān said: died in the year 129 AH, al-Bukhārī listed him in the section of those who died from 150 AH to 160 AH
    وَاصِلٌ الْأَحْدَبُثقة ثبت
    حدثنا
  4. Shuʿbah
    Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), meticulous (mutqin)d. 160 AH
    شُعْبَةُثقة حافظ , متقن
    حدثنا
  5. Ādam
    trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid)d. 220 AH, also said: 221 AH
    آدَمُ بْنُ أَبِي إِيَاسٍثقة عابد
    حدثنا
  6. al-Bukhārī
    a mountain of memorization and the leader of the world in the comprehension of hadith (jabal al-ḥifẓ wa-imām al-dunyā fī fiqh al-ḥadīth)d. 256 AH
    الْبُخَارِيُّجبل الحفظ وإمام الدنيا في فقه الحديث

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Commentaries

Fatḥ al-Bārī (Ibn Ḥajar)
ʿUmdat al-Qārī (Badr al-Dīn al-ʿAynī)

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