0 Abu! some of the people amongst us who belong to Khurasan say that a person who freed his bondswoman and then married her is like one who rode over a sacrificial animal. Sha'bi said: Abu Burda b. Abi Musa narrated it to me on the authority of his father that verily the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: There are three (classes of persons) who would be given a double reward. One who is amongst the People of the Book and believed in his apostle and (lived) to see the time of Apostle Muhammad ﷺ and affirmed his faith in him and followed him and attested his truth, for him is the double reward; and the slave of the master who discharges all those obligations that he owes to Allah and discharges his duties that he owes to his master, for him there is a double reward. And a man who had a bondswoman and fed her and fed her well, then taught her good manners, and did that well and later on granted her freedom and married her, for him is the double reward. Then Sha'bi said: Accept this hadith without (giving) anything. Formerly a man was (obliged) to travel to Medina even for a smaller hadith than this. This hadith has been narrated by another chain of transmitters like Abu Bakr b. Abi Shaiba, 'Abda b. Sulaiman Ibn Abi 'Umar Sufyan, 'Ubaidullah b. Mu'adh, Shu'ba; all of them heard it from Salih b. Salih. (Using translation from Muslim 154a)   

يَا أَبَا عَمْرٍو إِنَّ مَنْ قَبْلَنَا مِنْ أَهْلِ خُرَاسَانَ يَقُولُونَ إِذَا أَعْتَقَ الرَّجُلُ أمَتَهُ ثُمَّ تَزَوَّجَهَا فَهُوَ كَالرَّاكِبِ بَدَنَتَهُ فَقَالَ الشَّعْبِيُّ حَدَّثَنِي أَبُو بُرْدَةَ بْنُ أَبِي مُوسَى عَنْ أَبِيهِ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ قَالَ ثَلَاثَةٌ يُؤْتَوْنَ أَجْرَهُمْ مَرَّتَيْنِ رَجُلٌ مِنْ أَهْلِ الْكِتَابِ آمَنَ بِنَبِيِّهِ وَأَدْرَكَ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ فَآمَنَ بِهِ وَاتَّبَعَهُ وَصَدَّقَهُ فَلَهُ أَجْرَانِ وَعَبْدٌ مَمْلُوكٌ أَدَّى حَقَّ اللهِ وَحَقَّ مَوَالِيهِ فَلَهُ أَجْرَانِ وَرَجُلٌ كَانَتْ لَهُ أَمَةٌ فَغَذَّاهَا فَأَحْسَنَ غِذَاءَهَا ثُمَّ أَدَّبَهَا فَأَحْسَنَ تَأْدِيبَهَا ثُمَّ أَعْتَقَهَا وَتَزَوَّجَهَا فَلَهُ أَجْرَانِ ثُمَّ قَالَ الشَّعْبِيُّ لِلْخُرَاسَانِيِّ خُذْ هَذَا الْحَدِيثَ بِغَيْرِ شَيْءٍ فَقَدْ كَانَ الرَّجُلُ يَرْحَلُ فِيمَا دُونَ هَذَا الْحَدِيثِ إِلَى الْمَدِينَةِ  

[Machine] The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: "Whoever has a female slave and treats her well, educates her and teaches her, and then sets her free and marries her, he will have two rewards. And whoever fulfills the rights of Allah and the rights of his slaves, he will have two rewards."  

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ أَيُّمَا رَجُلٍ كَانَتْ لَهُ جَارِيَةٌ فَأَدَّبَهَا وَأَحْسَنَ تَأْدِيبَهَا وَعَلَّمَهَا فَأَحْسَنَ تَعْلِيمَهَا ثُمَّ أَعْتَقَهَا فَتَزَوَّجَهَا فَلَهُ أَجْرَانِ وَأَيُّمَا عَبْدٍ مَمْلُوكٍ أَدَّى حَقَّ اللهِ ﷻ وَحَقَّ مَوَالِيهِ فَلَهُ أَجْرَانِ  

[Machine] The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "When a man frees his slave and then marries her with a new dowry, he will be rewarded twice." This statement is narrated by Ahmad, and in the narration of Abu Dawood, it states, "When a man frees his slave and then marries her with a new dowry, he will be rewarded twice."  

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ إِذَا أَعْتَقَ الرَّجُلُ أَمَتَهُ ثُمَّ تَزَوَّجَهَا بِمَهْرٍ جَدِيدٍ كَانَ لَهُ أَجْرَانِ لَفْظُ حَدِيثِ أَحْمَدَ وَفِي رِوَايَةِ أَبِي دَاوُدَ إِذَا أَعْتَقَ الرَّجُلُ أَمَتَهُ ثُمَّ أَمْهَرَهَا مَهْرًا جَدِيدًا كَانَ لَهُ أَجْرَانِ  

[Machine] That the messenger of Allah ﷺ freed Safiyyah and made her freedom as her dowry.  

أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ أَعْتَقَ صَفِيَّةَ وَجَعَلَ عِتْقَهَا صَدَاقَهَا  

[Machine] I heard that Anas ibn Malik said that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ captured Safiyyah and then freed her and married her. Thabit al-Bunani said to Anas, "Did she really accept it?" He replied, "Indeed, she accepted it herself. He freed her and married her."  

سَمِعْتُ أَنَسَ بْنَ مَالِكٍ ؓ يَقُولُ سَبَى رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ صَفِيَّةَ فَأَعْتَقَهَا وَتَزَوَّجَهَا قَالَ ثَابِتٌ الْبُنَانِيُّ لِأَنَسٍ مَا أَصْدَقَهَا؟ قَالَ أَصْدَقَهَا نَفْسَهَا أَعْتَقَهَا وَتَزَوَّجَهَا  

[Machine] "He made her skillful."  

أَنَّهُ أَمْهَرَهَا  

[Machine] When it was the day of the Battle of Quraizah and the banner was brought, led by Safiyyah, a slave woman. Allah granted victory to the Muslims and her arm was in the hand of the Messenger of Allah. When she saw the captives, she said, "I bear witness that there is no god but Allah and that you are the Messenger of Allah." He sent her arm out of his hand and set her free, then he proposed to her and married her, and he gave her a dowry. And Allah knows best.  

لَمَّا كَانَ يَوْمُ قُرَيْظَةَ وَالنَّضِيرِ جَاءَ بِصَفِيَّةَ يَقُودُهَا سَبِيَّةً حَتَّى فَتَحَ اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَذِرَاعُهَا فِي يَدِهِ فَلَمَّا رَأَتِ السَّبْيَ قَالَتْ أَشْهَدُ أَنْ لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا اللهُ وَأَنَّكَ رَسُولُ اللهِ فَأَرْسَلَ ذِرَاعَهَا مِنْ يَدِهِ فَأَعْتَقَهَا فَخَطَبَهَا فَتَزَوَّجَهَا وَأَمْهَرَهَا رَزِينَةَ وَاللهُ أَعْلَمُ