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Qurʾān Bukhārī Muslim Nasāʾī Abū Dāwūd Tirmidhī Ibn Mājah Mālik Aḥmad Dārimī Ḥākim Ibn Ḥibbān Ṭabarānī Nasāʾī's Kubrá Bayhaqī al-Luʾluʾ wa-al-Marjān Ibn Rajab's Fifty Riyāḍ al-Ṣāliḥīn Aḥmad's Zuhd Suyūṭī
ahmad:26629 – ʿAbd al-Razzāq > Maʿmar > al-Zuhrī > Nabhān Mukātab Um Salamah > Innī Laʾaqūd Bihā Bi-al-Baydāʾ or > Bi-al-Abwāʾ

[Machine] I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ saying: "If there is something to be handed over at the desks, then keep away from it."  

أحمد:٢٦٦٢٩ – حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّزَّاقِ حَدَّثَنَا مَعْمَرٌ عَنْ الزُّهْرِيِّ حَدَّثَنِي نَبْهَانُ مُكَاتَبُ أُمِّ سَلَمَةَ قَالَ إِنِّي لَأَقُودُ بِهَا بِالْبَيْدَاءِ أَوْ قَالَ بِالْأَبْوَاءِ فَقَالَتْ

سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ إِذَا كَانَ عِنْدَ الْمُكَاتَبِ مَا يُؤَدِّي فَاحْتَجِبِي مِنْهُ  

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Collected by Tirmidhī, Aḥmad, Ṭabarānī, Nasāʾī's Kubrá, Suyūṭī
tirmidhi:1261 – Saʿīd b. ʿAbd al-Raḥman al-Makhzūmī > Sufyān b. ʿUyaynah > al-Zuhrī > Nabhān a freed slave of Um Salamah > Um Salamah

That the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: "When one of you (women) has a Mukatab ho has with him what will fulfill (the Kitabah) then observe Hijab from him."  

[Abu 'Eisa said:] This Hadith is Hasan Sahih. And the meaning of this Hadith according to the people of knowledge is that of caution. They say that the Mukatab is not freed, even if he has the amount to pay, until he pays it.
الترمذي:١٢٦١ – حَدَّثَنَا سَعِيدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ الْمَخْزُومِيُّ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ بْنُ عُيَيْنَةَ عَنِ الزُّهْرِيِّ عَنْ نَبْهَانَ مَوْلَى أُمِّ سَلَمَةَ عَنْ أُمِّ سَلَمَةَ قَالَتْ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ إِذَا كَانَ عِنْدَ مُكَاتَبِ إِحْدَاكُنَّ مَا يُؤَدِّي فَلْتَحْتَجِبْ مِنْهُ  

قَالَ أَبُو عِيسَى هَذَا حَدِيثٌ حَسَنٌ صَحِيحٌ وَمَعْنَى هَذَا الْحَدِيثِ عِنْدَ أَهْلِ الْعِلْمِ عَلَى التَّوَرُّعِ وَقَالُوا لاَ يُعْتَقُ الْمُكَاتَبُ وَإِنْ كَانَ عِنْدَهُ مَا يُؤَدِّي حَتَّى يُؤَدِّيَ
ahmad:26656 – Muḥammad b. Jaʿfar > Maʿmar > Ibn Shihāb > Nabhān > Um Salamah

[Machine] I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say, "When the scribes find something to expose, they should conceal it."  

أحمد:٢٦٦٥٦ – حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ جَعْفَرٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا مَعْمَرٌ حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ شِهَابٍ عَنْ نَبْهَانَ عَنْ أُمِّ سَلَمَةَ قَالَتْ

سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ إِذَا وَجَدَ الْمُكَاتَبُ مَا يُؤَدِّي فَاحْتَجِبْنَ مِنْهُ  

tabarani:20073 – Isḥāq b. Ibrāhīm al-Dabarī > ʿAbd al-Razzāq > Maʿmar > al-Zuhrī > Nabhān Mukātab Um Salamah > Um Salamah

[Machine] I heard the Messenger of Allah, ﷺ , saying: "If there is something to be delivered at the desks, then stay away from it."  

الطبراني:٢٠٠٧٣ – حَدَّثَنَا إِسْحَاقُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ الدَّبَرِيُّ عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّزَّاقِ عَنْ مَعْمَرٍ عَنِ الزُّهْرِيِّ قَالَ ثنا نَبْهَانُ مُكَاتَبُ أُمِّ سَلَمَةَ عَنْ أُمِّ سَلَمَةَ قَالَتْ

سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ «إِذَا كَانَ عِنْدَ الْمُكَاتَبِ مَا يُؤَدِّي فَاحْتَجِبِي مِنْهُ»  

tabarani:20074 – al-Ḥusayn b. Isḥāq > ʿUthmān b. Abū Shaybah > Qabīṣah > Sufyān > Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Raḥman > Mukātab Liʾum Salamah Yuqāl Lah Nabhān > Um Salamah

[Machine] I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say, "If the pen finds what is owed, abstain from it."  

الطبراني:٢٠٠٧٤ – حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ إِسْحَاقَ ثنا عُثْمَانُ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ ثنا قَبِيصَةُ ثنا سُفْيَانُ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ عَنْ مُكَاتَبٍ لِأُمِّ سَلَمَةَ يُقَالُ لَهُ نَبْهَانُ عَنْ أُمِّ سَلَمَةَ قَالَتْ

سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ «إِذَا وَجَدَ الْمُكَاتَبُ مَا يُؤَدِّي فَاحْتَجِبِي مِنْهُ»  

nasai-kubra:9184 – Muḥammad b. Manṣūr > Sufyān > Samiʿnāh from al-Zuhrī > Nabhān > Lī Um Salamah

“If anyone of you (women) has a Mukatab, and he has enough (wealth) to pay off (his contact of manumission), she must veil herself from him.” (Using translation from Ibn Mājah 2520)   

الكبرى للنسائي:٩١٨٤ – أَخْبَرَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ مَنْصُورٍ عَنْ سُفْيَانَ قَالَ سَمِعْنَاهُ مِنَ الزُّهْرِيِّ عَنْ نَبْهَانَ قَالَ قَالَتْ لِي أُمُّ سَلَمَةَ

سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ «إِذَا كَانَ عِنْدَ إِحْدَاكُنَّ مُكَاتَبٌ وَكَانَ عِنْدَهُ مَا يُؤَدِّي فَلْتَحْتَجِبْ مِنْهُ»  

nasai-kubra:5011 – ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd b. Muḥammad al-Ḥarrānī > Makhlad b. Yazīd al-Ḥarrānī > Sufyān > Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Raḥman a freed slave of Āl Ṭalḥah > al-Zuhrī

[Machine] I heard the Messenger of Allah, ﷺ , saying: "When the scribes find what they are entitled to, refrain from it."  

الكبرى للنسائي:٥٠١١ – أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ الْحَمِيدِ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ الْحَرَّانِيُّ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا مَخْلَدُ بْنُ يَزِيدَ الْحَرَّانِيُّ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ مَوْلَى آلِ طَلْحَةَ عَنِ الزُّهْرِيِّ قَالَ كَانَ مُكَاتَبٌ لِأُمِّ سَلَمَةَ يُقَالُ لَهُ نَبْهَانُ قَالَتْ أُمُّ سَلَمَةَ

سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ «إِذَا وَجَدَ الْمُكَاتَبُ مَا يُؤَدِّي فَاحْتَجِبِي مِنْهُ»  

nasai-kubra:5012 – Naṣr b. ʿAlī b. Naṣr al-Jahḍamī > ʿAbd al-Aʿlá > Maʿmar > al-Zuhrī > Nabhān > Um Salamah

[Machine] I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ saying, "When you find the scribes fulfilling their duty, then distance yourself from it."  

الكبرى للنسائي:٥٠١٢ – أَخْبَرَنَا نَصْرُ بْنُ عَلِيِّ بْنِ نَصْرٍ الْجَهْضَمِيُّ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الْأَعْلَى قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا مَعْمَرٌ عَنِ الزُّهْرِيِّ عَنْ نَبْهَانَ عَنْ أُمِّ سَلَمَةَ قَالَتْ

سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ «إِذَا وَجَدَ الْمُكَاتَبُ مَا يُؤَدِّي فَاحْتَجِبِي مِنْهُ»  

suyuti:2501a –

That the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: "When one of you (women) has a Mukatab ho has with him what will fulfill (the Kitabah) then observe Hijab from him." (Using translation from Tirmidhī 1261)   

السيوطي:٢٥٠١a –

"إذا كانَ عنْدَ المُكَاتَبِ ما يُؤدِّي فَاحْتَجِبَنَ مِنْه" .  

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