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Sahih Muslim 1662

Feeding a slave what one eats and clothing him as one clothes oneself, and not burdening him with more than he bear

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وَحَدَّثَنِي أَبُو الطَّاهِرِ أَحْمَدُ بْنُ عَمْرِو بْنِ سَرْحٍ أَخْبَرَنَا ابْنُ وَهْبٍ أَخْبَرَنَا عَمْرُو بْنُ الْحَارِثِ أَنَّ بُكَيْرَ بْنَ الأَشَجِّ حَدَّثَهُ عَنِ الْعَجْلاَنِ مَوْلَى فَاطِمَةَ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ عَنْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ أَنَّهُ قَالَ

لِلْمَمْلُوكِ طَعَامُهُ وَكِسْوَتُهُ وَلاَ يُكَلَّفُ مِنَ الْعَمَلِ إِلاَّ مَا يُطِيقُ

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. Abū al-Ṭāhir Aḥmad b. ʿAmr b. Sarḥ
  2. Ibn and Hb
  3. ʿAmr b. al-Ḥārith
  4. Bukayr b. al-Ashaj
  5. al-ʿAjlān a freed slave of Fāṭimah
  6. Abū Hurayrah
  7. Rasūl Allāh ﷺ

It is essential to feed the slave, clothe him (properly) and not burden him with work which is beyond his power.

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Same hadith, other wordings

  • Muwaththa' Malik 54-41قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ لِلْمَمْلُوكِ طَعَامُهُ وَكِسْوَتُهُ بِالْمَعْرُوفِ وَلاَ يُكَلَّفُ مِنَ الْعَمَلِ إِلاَّ مَا يُطِيقُ
  • Misykatul Mashabih 3344وَعَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى الله عَلَيْهِ وَسلم: «للمملوك طَعَامه وَكسوته وَلَا يُكَلف من الْعَمَل إِلَّا مَا يُطيق». رَوَاهُ مُسلم

Other narrations of this report

Narrators

  1. The illustrious Companion, the memorizer among the Companions (ḥāfiẓ al-ṣaḥābah)d. 57 AH, or: 58 AH, or: 59 AH
    أَبُو هُرَيْرَةَ الدَّوْسِيُّالصحابي الجليل ، حافظ الصحابة
    عن
  2. no harm in him (lā baʾs bih)d. between 101 AH and 110 AH
    الْعَجْلَانِ ج٥ / ص٩٤مَوْلَى فَاطِمَةَلا بأس به
    عن
  3. trustworthy (thiqah)d. 117 AH, or 120 AH, or 122 AH, or 124 AH, or 127 AH
    بُكَيْرَ بْنَ الْأَشَجِّثقة
    حدثه
  4. trustworthy (thiqah), jurist, ḥāfiẓd. 147 AH, or 148 AH, or 149 AH
    عَمْرُو بْنُ الْحَارِثِثقة فقيه حافظ
    أخبرنا
  5. Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), devout (ʿābid)d. 197 AH
    ابْنُ وَهْبٍثقة حافظ ، عابد
    أخبرنا
  6. trustworthy (thiqah)d. end of 249 AH, or 250 AH
    أَبُو الطَّاهِرِ أَحْمَدُ بْنُ عَمْرِو بْنِ سَرْحٍثقة
    حدثني
  7. Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), an imam, an author of compilations, knowledgeable in jurisprudence (fiqh)d. Muḥammad b. Yaʿqūb said: 261 AH, Makkī b. ʿAbdān said: 259 AH
    مُسْلِمٌثقة حافظ ، إمام ، مصنف ، عالم بالفقه

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Commentaries

Lamaʿāt al-Tanqīḥ (ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Dihlawī)
al-Minhāj (Nawawī)
al-Mufham (Abū al-ʿAbbās)

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