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ahmad:1944Ismāʿīl > Hishām > Yaḥyá b. Abū Kathīr > ʿIkrimah > Ibn ʿAbbās

[Machine] The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said about mukatab, "He shall be emancipated based on the amount that he pays of the diyah (blood money) for the free person and based on the amount that is reduced from his diyah as a slave."  

أحمد:١٩٤٤حَدَّثَنَا إِسْمَاعِيلُ أَخْبَرَنَا هِشَامٌ عَنْ يَحْيَى بْنِ أَبِي كَثِيرٍ عَنْ عِكْرِمَةَ عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ فِي الْمُكَاتَبِ يَعْتِقُ مِنْهُ بِقَدْرِ مَا أَدَّى دِيَةَ الْحُرِّ وَبِقَدْرِ مَا رَقَّ مِنْهُ دِيَةَ الْعَبْدِ  


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nasai:4810Muḥammad b. Ismāʿīl b. Ibrāhīm > Yaʿlá > al-Ḥajjāj al-Ṣawwāf > Yaḥyá > ʿIkrimah > Ibn ʿAbbās

"The Messenger of Allah ruled that in the case of a Mukatab, the Diyah should be (equivalent) to the Diyah for a free man, proportionate to the amount he had paid off (towards buying his freedom)." (Dar'if)  

النسائي:٤٨١٠حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ إِسْمَاعِيلَ بْنِ إِبْرَاهِيمَ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا يَعْلَى عَنِ الْحَجَّاجِ الصَّوَّافِ عَنْ يَحْيَى عَنْ عِكْرِمَةَ عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ قَالَ

قَضَى رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ فِي الْمُكَاتَبِ يُودَى بِقَدْرِ مَا أَدَّى مِنْ مُكَاتَبَتِهِ دِيَةَ الْحُرِّ وَمَا بَقِيَ دِيَةَ الْعَبْدِ  

ahmad:2356Muḥammad b. ʿAbdullāh > Hishām b. Abū ʿAbdullāh > Yaḥyá b. Abū Kathīr > ʿIkrimah > Ibn ʿAbbās

[Machine] The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "The freed slave will be judged according to how much he has paid for his freedom, and the slave will be judged according to how much his value has decreased."  

أحمد:٢٣٥٦حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللهِ حَدَّثَنَا هِشَامُ بْنُ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللهِ حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ أَبِي كَثِيرٍ عَنْ عِكْرِمَةَ عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ يُودَى الْمُكَاتَبُ بِقَدْرِ مَا أَدَّى دِيَةَ الْحُرِّ وَبِقَدْرِ مَا رَقَّ دِيَةَ الْعَبْدِ  

ahmad:2660ʿAffān > Abān al-ʿAṭṭār > Yaḥyá b. Abū Kathīr > ʿIkrimah > Ibn ʿAbbās

[Machine] The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: The Mukatab (a slave who is granted the right to buy his freedom) should pay the value of what he has been freed for according to the price of a free person, and what remains due to be paid should be calculated according to the value of a slave.  

أحمد:٢٦٦٠حَدَّثَنَا عَفَّانُ حَدَّثَنَا أَبَانُ الْعَطَّارُ حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ أَبِي كَثِيرٍ عَنْ عِكْرِمَةَ عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ الْمُكَاتَبُ يُودَى مَا أَعْتَقَ مِنْهُ بِحِسَابِ الْحُرِّ وَمَا رَقَّ مِنْهُ بِحِسَابِ الْعَبْدِ  

ahmad:1984Ismāʿīl > Hishām al-Dastuwāʾī > Yaḥyá b. Abū Kathīr > ʿIkrimah > Ibn ʿAbbās

[Machine] The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said concerning slaves: "He is freed according to the amount that is paid for the blood money of a free person, and according to the amount of the blood money of the slave that he paid off."  

أحمد:١٩٨٤حَدَّثَنَا إِسْمَاعِيلُ حَدَّثَنَا هِشَامٌ الدَّسْتُوَائِيُّ عَنْ يَحْيَى بْنِ أَبِي كَثِيرٍ عَنْ عِكْرِمَةَ عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ فِي الْمُكَاتَبِ يَعْتِقُ مِنْهُ بِقَدْرِ مَا أَدَّى دِيَةَ الْحُرِّ وَبِقَدْرِ مَا رَقَّ مِنْهُ دِيَةَ الْعَبْدِ  

hakim:2865Abū al-Naḍr Muḥammad b. Muḥammad b. Yūsuf al-Faqīh > ʿUthmān b. Saʿīd al-Dārimī And ʿAlī b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz > Muslim b. Ibrāhīm > Abān b. Yazīd > Yaḥyá b. Abū Kathīr > ʿIkrimah > Ibn ʿAbbās

[Machine] The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "Mukatabs should be treated according to the amount they have freed themselves with, based on the calculation of a free person, and what they have left to be freed ought to be calculated as that of a slave."  

الحاكم:٢٨٦٥أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو النَّضْرِ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ يُوسُفَ الْفَقِيهُ ثنا عُثْمَانُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ الدَّارِمِيُّ وَعَلِيُّ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْعَزِيزِ قَالَا ثنا مُسْلِمُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ ثنا أَبَانُ بْنُ يَزِيدَ ثنا يَحْيَى بْنُ أَبِي كَثِيرٍ عَنْ عِكْرِمَةَ عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ «يُؤَدِّي الْمُكَاتَبُ بِقَدْرِ مَا عُتِقَ مِنْهُ بِحِسَابِ الْحُرِّ وَمَا رَقَّ فَبِحِسَابِ الْعَبْدِ»  

هَذَا حَدِيثٌ صَحِيحٌ عَلَى شَرْطِ الْبُخَارِيِّ وَلَمْ يُخَرِّجَاهُ
tabarani:11991Isḥāq b. Ibrāhīm > ʿAbd al-Razzāq > ʿUmar b. Rāshid > Yaḥyá b. Abū Kathīr > ʿIkrimah > Ibn ʿAbbās

[Machine] The Prophet of Allah ﷺ said, "The blood money for a slave is according to what has been freed of him, and the blood money for a free person is according to what has been killed of him."  

الطبراني:١١٩٩١حَدَّثَنَا إِسْحَاقُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّزَّاقِ عَنْ عُمَرَ بْنِ رَاشِدٍ عَنْ يَحْيَى بْنِ أَبِي كَثِيرٍ عَنْ عِكْرِمَةَ عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ

أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ قَالَ «دِيَةُ الْمُكَاتَبِ بِقَدْرِ مَا عَتَقَ مِنْهُ دِيَةُ الْحُرِّ وَبِقَدْرِ مَا رَقَّ مِنْهُ دِيَةُ الْعَبْدِ»  

tabarani:11994ʿUthmān b. ʿUmar al-Ḍabbī > Saʿīd b. Sulaymān al-Nashyṭy > Abān b. Yazīd > Yaḥyá b. Abū Kathīr > ʿIkrimah > Ibn ʿAbbās

[Machine] The Prophet ﷺ said, "The compensation for the injury caused by a slave is equivalent to the compensation granted to a free person, and the compensation for the injury caused by a slave who has been freed is equivalent to the compensation granted to a slave."  

الطبراني:١١٩٩٤حَدَّثَنَا عُثْمَانُ بْنُ عُمَرَ الضَّبِّيُّ ثنا سَعِيدُ بْنُ سُلَيْمَانَ النَّشيطيُّ ثنا أَبَانُ بْنُ يَزِيدَ عَنْ يَحْيَى بْنِ أَبِي كَثِيرٍ عَنْ عِكْرِمَةَ عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ

عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ قَالَ «دِيَةُ الْمُكَاتَبِ قَدْرَ مَا عَتَقَ مِنْهُ دِيَةُ الْحُرِّ وَمَا رَقَّ مِنْهُ دِيَةُ الْمَمْلُوكِ»  

nasai-kubra:6985Muḥammad b. Ismāʿīl b. Ibrāhīm > Yaʿlá > al-Ḥajjāj al-Ṣawwāf > Yaḥyá > ʿIkrimah > Ibn ʿAbbās

"The Messenger of Allah ruled that in the case of a Mukatab, the Diyah should be (equivalent) to the Diyah for a free man, proportionate to the amount he had paid off (towards buying his freedom)." (Dar'if) (Using translation from Nasāʾī 4810)  

الكبرى للنسائي:٦٩٨٥أَخْبَرَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ إِسْمَاعِيلَ بْنِ إِبْرَاهِيمَ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا يَعْلَى عَنِ الْحَجَّاجِ الصَّوَّافِ عَنْ يَحْيَى عَنْ عِكْرِمَةَ عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ قَالَ

«قَضَى رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ فِي الْمُكَاتَبِ يُودَى بِقَدْرِ مَا أَدَّى مِنَ الْمُكَاتَبَةَ دِيَةَ الْحُرِّ وَمَا بَقِيَ دِيَةَ الْعَبْدِ»  

nasai-kubra:5000Sulaymān b. Salm al-Balkhī > al-Naḍr > Hishām > ʿUbaydullāh b. Saʿīd > Muʿādh b. Hishām from my father > Yaḥyá b. Abū Kathīr > ʿIkrimah > ʿAbdullāh b. ʿAbbās

[Machine] The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "The one who is enslaved will be given freedom according to the ransom paid for the free person, and the one who is enslaved will be given freedom according to the ransom paid for the slave."  

الكبرى للنسائي:٥٠٠٠أَخْبَرَنَا سُلَيْمَانُ بْنُ سَلْمٍ الْبَلْخِيُّ قَالَ أَخْبَرَنَا النَّضْرُ قَالَ أَخْبَرَنَا هِشَامٌ وَأَخْبَرَنَا عُبَيْدُ اللهِ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا مُعَاذُ بْنُ هِشَامٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا أَبِي عَنْ يَحْيَى بْنِ أَبِي كَثِيرٍ عَنْ عِكْرِمَةَ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ عَبَّاسٍ

أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ قَالَ «يُؤَدِّي الْمُكَاتَبُ بِقَدْرِ مَا عَتَقَ مِنْهُ دِيَةَ الْحُرِّ وَبِقَدْرِ مَا رَقَّ مِنْهُ دِيَةَ الْعَبْدِ»