al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 1829
✧ Manumission of a Child Born of Fornication
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وَقَالَ إِسْحَاقُ: أَخْبَرَنَا مُعَاذُ بْنُ هِشَامٍ، حَدَّثَنِي أَبِي، عَنْ يَحْيَى بْنِ أَبِي كَثِيرٍ، حَدَّثَنِي رَجُلٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا، عَنْ رَجُلٍ، أَنَّ مَوْلَاةً لِلنَّبِيِّ ﷺ حَدَّثَتْهُ:
أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ أَعْطَاهَا جَارِيَةً، وَأَنَّ تِلْكَ الْجَارِيَةَ وَلَدَتْ مِنْ زِنَا، وَأَنَّهَا أَرَادَتْ أَنْ تَعْتِقَ وَلَدَهَا، فَاسْتَأْمَرَتْ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ فِي ذَلِكَ، فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ: لَأَنْ تَصَدَّقِي بِصَدَقَةٍ خَيْرٌ لَكِ مِنْ أَنْ تُعْتِقِيهَا، وَلَكِنِ اسْتَخْدِمِيهَا
Translation
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- Isḥāq
- Muʿādh b. Hishām
- my father
- Yaḥyá b. Abū Kathīr
- a man Min Aṣḥābinā
- a man
- Mawlāh Lilnnabī ﷺ
✧ Indeed the Messenger of God ﷺ gave her a slave-girl, and that slave-girl gave birth as a result of fornication, and she wanted to manumit her child, so she consulted the Messenger of God ﷺ about that. Then the Messenger of God ﷺ said: "To give charity with some charity is better for you than to manumit her, but you may employ her."
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- Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī
رجاله ثقات إلا الرجل المبهم وشيخه كذلك
in المطالب العالية, p. 1829
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Narrators
- Companion (ṣaḥābī)أَحَدُ الصَّحَابَةِصحابيحدثته
- رجلعن
- رجل من أصحاب يحيى بن أبي كثيرحدثني
- trustworthy and reliable (thiqah thabt), but he practiced tadlīs and irsāld. 129 AH or 130 AH or 132 AHيَحْيَى بْنِ أَبِي كَثِيرٍثقة ثبت ، لكنه يدلس ويرسلعن
- Trustworthy and firmly reliable (thiqah thabt), though he was accused of belief in free will (qadar)d. 151 AH, or 152 AH, or 153 AH, or 154 AHأَبِيثقة ثبت ، وقد رمي بالقدرحدثني
- truthful (ṣadūq), who sometimes made mistakes (rubbamā wahima)d. 200 AHمُعَاذُ بْنُ هِشَامٍصدوق ربما وهمأخبرنا
- trustworthy, a memorizer, a mujtahid (thiqah ḥāfiẓ mujtahid)d. 237 AH, or 238 AHإِسْحَاقُثقة حافظ مجتهد
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