Mishkat
al-Masabih

مشكاة المصابيح

14

Emancipation

كتاب العتق

 

Chapter 1b: Emancipating a Slave who is jointly owned, buying a relative, and emancipating during an illness - Section 2

باب إعتاق العبد المشترك وشراء القريب والعتق في المرض - الفصل الثاني

Mishkat al-Masabih 3395

Jabir said

In the time of God’s Messenger and of Abu Bakr we sold slave women who had borne children, but when ‘Umar was in power he forbade us to do so and we stopped. Abu Dawud transmitted it.

وَعَنْ جَابِرٍ قَالَ: بِعْنَا أُمَّهَاتِ الْأَوْلَادِ عَلَى عَهْدِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ وَأَبِي بَكْرٍ فَلَمَّا كَانَ عُمَرُ نَهَانَا عَنْهُ فَانْتَهَيْنَا. رَوَاهُ أَبُو دَاوُد