al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 3365
✧ Fair Treatment of Slaves, and What May Be Acquired of Them and of Animals
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وَقَالَ الْحُمَيْدِيُّ: حَدَّثَنَا مَهْدِيٌّ، عَنْ وَاصِلٍ، عَنْ هِلَالٍ، عَنْ أَبِي سِنَانٍ مَوْلًى لِبَنِي هَاشِمٍ قَالَ: بَلَغَنَا أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ قَالَ:
إِنَّ مِنْ شَرِّ رَقِيقِكُمُ السُّودَانَ، إِنْ جَاعُوا سَرَقُوا، وَإِنْ شَبِعُوا زَنَوْا
Translation
Chain of narrators
- al-Ḥumaydī
- Mahdī
- Wāṣil
- Hilāl
- Abū Sinān a freed slave of Libanī Hāshim
- Balaghanā
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
✧ Among the worst of your slaves are the blacks; if they are hungry they steal, and if they are full they commit adultery.
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Other narrations of this report
al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 12245al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 4066al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 7704al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 1819
Narrators
- أبو سنان مولى لبني هاشمعن
- هِلَالٍعن
- truthful (ṣadūq), devout (ʿābid)d. between 121 and 130 AHوَاصِلٍصدوق عابدعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. during al-Mahdī's caliphate, or: 171 AH, or: 172 AHمَهْدِيٌّثقةحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah), ḥāfiẓ, jurist, the most eminent of Ibn ʿUyaynah's studentsd. 219 AH, or 220 AHالْحُمَيْدِيُّثقة حافظ فقيه ، أجل أصحاب ابن عيينة
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