al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 6207
✧ Selling Correspondence Before Anything is Written
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أَخْبَرَنَا يُونُسُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْأَعْلَى قَالَ أَخْبَرَنَا ابْنُ وَهْبٍ قَالَ أَخْبَرَنِي رِجَالٌ مِنْ أَهْلِ الْعِلْمِ مِنْهُمْ يُونُسُ وَاللَّيْثُ أَنَّ ابْنَ شِهَابٍ أَخْبَرَهُمْ عَنْ عُرْوَةَ عَنْ عَائِشَةَ أَنَّهَا قَالَتْ جَاءَتْ بَرِيرَةُ إِلَيَّ فَقَالَتْ
يَا عَائِشَةُ إِنِّي كَاتَبْتُ أَهْلِي عَلَى تِسْعِ أَوَاقٍ فِي كُلِّ عَامٍ وُقِيَّةٌ فَأَعِينِينِي وَلَمْ تَكُنْ قَضَتْ مِنْ كِتَابَتِهَا شَيْئًا فَقَالَتْ لَهَا عَائِشَةُ وَنَفِسَتْ فِيهَا ارْجِعِي إِلَى أَهْلِكِ فَإِنْ أَحَبُّوا أَنْ أُعْطِيَهُمْ ذَلِكَ جَمِيعًا وَيَكُونَ وَلَاؤُكِ لِي فَعَلْتُ فَذَهَبَتْ بَرِيرَةُ إِلَى أَهْلِهَا فَعَرَضَتْ ذَلِكَ عَلَيْهِمْ فَأَبَوْا وَقَالُوا إِنْ شَاءَتْ أَنْ تَحْتَسِبَ عَلَيْكِ فَلْتَفْعَلْ وَيَكُونَ ذَلِكَ لَنَا فَذَكَرَتْ ذَلِكَ عَائِشَةُ لِرَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ فَقَالَ «لَا يَمْنَعُكِ ذَلِكَ مِنْهَا ابْتَاعِي وَأَعْتِقِي؛ فَإِنّمَا الْوَلَاءُ لِمَنْ أَعْتَقَ» فَفَعَلَتْ وَقَامَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ فَحَمِدَ اللهَ ثُمَّ قَالَ «أَمَّا بَعْدُ فَمَا بَالُ أُنَاسٍ يَشْتَرِطُونَ شُرُوطًا لَيْسَتْ فِي كِتَابِ اللهِ مَنِ اشْتَرَطَ شَرْطًا لَيْسَ فِي كِتَابِ اللهِ فَهُوَ بَاطِلٌ وَإِنْ كَانَ مِائَةُ شَرْطٍ قَضَاءُ اللهِ أَحَقُّ وَشَرْطُ اللهِ أَوْثَقُ وَإِنَّمَا الْوَلَاءُ لِمَنْ أَعْتَقَ»
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Yūnus b. ʿAbd al-Aʿlá
- Ibn Wahb
- Rijāl from Ahl al-ʿIlm Minhum Yūnus Wa-al-Layth
- Ibn Shihāb
- ʿUrwah
- ʿĀʾishah
- Jāʾat Barīrah Ilay
✧ “O ʿĀʾishah, I have made a kitābah contract with my owners for nine ūqiyyahs, one ūqiyyah each year, so help me.” She had not yet paid anything of her kitābah. ʿĀʾishah said to her, and she desired her for herself: “Return to your owners. If they like, I will give them the whole amount at once, and your walāʾ will belong to me, and I will do it.” Barīrah went to her owners and presented that to them, but they refused and said: “If she wants to count it as a favor to you, let her do so, but that will belong to us.” ʿĀʾishah mentioned that to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, and he said: “Do not let that stop you from her. Buy her and manumit her, for walāʾ belongs to the one who manumits.” So she did it. Then the Messenger of Allah ﷺ stood up, praised Allah, and said: “To proceed: What is the matter with people who stipulate conditions that are not in the Book of Allah? Whoever stipulates a condition that is not in the Book of Allah, it is invalid, even if it is a hundred conditions. The decree of Allah is more deserving, and the condition of Allah is more binding, and walāʾ belongs to the one who manumits.”
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