al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 4910
✧ The superiority of charity over emancipation
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أَخْبَرَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى بْنِ الْوَزِيرِ بْنِ سُلَيْمَانَ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ ابْنَ وَهْبٍ قَالَ أَخْبَرَنِي عَمْرُو بْنُ الْحَارِثِ وَذَكَرَ آخَرَ قَبْلَهُ عَنْ بُكَيْرٍ أَنَّهُ سَمِعَ كُرَيْبًا يَقُولُ
سَمِعْتُ مَيْمُونَةَ بِنْتَ الْحَارِثِ تَقُولُ أَعْتَقْتُ وَلِيدَةً فِي زَمَانِ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ فَذَكَرْتُ ذَلِكَ لِرَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ فَقَالَ «لَوْ أَعْطَيْتِ أَخْوَالَكِ كَانَ أَعْظَمَ لِأَجْرِكِ» خَالَفَهُ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ إِسْحَاقَ
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Chain of narrators
- Aḥmad b. Yaḥyá b. al-Wazīr b. Sulaymān
- Ibn Wahb
- ʿAmr b. al-Ḥārith Wadhakar Ākhar Qablah
- Bukayr
- Kurayb
- Maymūnah b. al-Ḥārith
✧ I heard Maymunah bt. al-Harith say: "I manumitted a slave girl during the time of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, and I mentioned that to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ. He said: 'If you had given her to your maternal uncles, it would have been a greater reward for you.'" Muhammad b. Ishaq disagreed with it.
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