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Sahih Muslim 2249b

Ruling On Using The Words 'Abd And Amah (For Slaves) And Mawla And Sayyid (For Masters)

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وَحَدَّثَنِي زُهَيْرُ بْنُ حَرْبٍ حَدَّثَنَا جَرِيرٌ عَنِ الأَعْمَشِ عَنْ أَبِي صَالِحٍ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ

لاَ يَقُولَنَّ أَحَدُكُمْ عَبْدِي فَكُلُّكُمْ عَبِيدُ اللَّهِ وَلَكِنْ لِيَقُلْ فَتَاىَ وَلاَ يَقُلِ الْعَبْدُ رَبِّي وَلَكِنْ لِيَقُلْ سَيِّدِي

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. Zuhayr b. Ḥarb
  2. Jarīr
  3. al-Aʿmash
  4. Abū Ṣāliḥ
  5. Abū Hurayrah
  6. Rasūl Allāh ﷺ

None of you should say: My bondman, for all of you are the bondmen of Allah, but say: My young man, and the servant should not say: My Lord, but should say: My chief.

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  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. trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 101 AH
    أَبِي صَالِحٍثقة ثبت
    عن
  3. Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), knowledgeable in the recitations (qirāʾāt), scrupulous (wariʿ), but he practiced concealment (tadlīs)d. Abū ʿAwānah said, and ʿAbd Allāh b. Dāwūd: 147 AH. Wakīʿ said, and more than one: 148 AH. And al-Khaṭīb considered it correct. Also said: 145 AH
    الْأَعْمَشِثقة حافظ , عارف بالقراءات ورع لكنه يدلس
    عن
  4. Trustworthy (thiqah), his book is sound (ṣaḥīḥ al-kitāb); it was said that at the end of his life he would err when narrating from memoryd. 187 AH or 188 AH
    جَرِيرٌثقة صحيح الكتاب ، قيل : كان في آخر عمره يهم من حفظه
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  5. trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 234 AH, also said: 232 AH
    زُهَيْرُ بْنُ حَرْبٍثقة ثبت
    حدثني
  6. 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

al-Minhāj (Nawawī)
al-Mufham (Abū al-ʿAbbās)

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