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darimi:3275 – ʿUbaydullāh > Isrāʾīl > Manṣūr > Ibrāhīm

[Machine] "The giving of gifts should precede the will."  

الدارمي:٣٢٧٥ – حَدَّثَنَا عُبَيْدُ اللَّهِ عَنْ إِسْرَائِيلَ عَنْ مَنْصُورٍ عَنْ إِبْرَاهِيمَ قَالَ

«يُبْدَأُ بِالْعَتَاقَةِ قَبْلَ الْوَصِيَّةِ»  

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bayhaqi:12616 – Abū Muḥammad al-Ḥusayn b. ʿAlūsā al-Asadābādhī Bihā > Abū Bakr Aḥmad b. Jaʿfar al-Qaṭīʿī > Abū ʿAlī Bishr b. Mūsá > Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥman al-Muqriʾ > Ḥaywah > Yaḥyá b. Saʿīd al-Anṣārī > Saʿīd b. al-Musayyib > Maḍat al-Sunnah

[Machine] "To begin with by giving freedom in the will."  

البيهقي:١٢٦١٦ – أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو مُحَمَّدٍ الْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ عَلُوسَا الْأَسَدْآبَاذِيُّ بِهَا ثنا أَبُو بَكْرٍ أَحْمَدُ بْنُ جَعْفَرٍ الْقَطِيعِيُّ ثنا أَبُو عَلِيٍّ بِشْرُ بْنُ مُوسَى ثنا أَبُو عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ الْمُقْرِئُ ثنا حَيْوَةُ ثنا يَحْيَى بْنُ سَعِيدٍ الْأَنْصَارِيُّ عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ الْمُسَيِّبِ قَالَ مَضَتِ السُّنَّةُ

أَنْ يُبْدَأَ بِالْعَتَاقَةِ فِي الْوَصِيَّةِ  

bayhaqi:12619 – Sufyān > Ibn Abū Laylá > al-Ḥakam > Shurayḥ

[Machine] It begins with freeing slaves before the instructions.  

البيهقي:١٢٦١٩ – وَعَنْ سُفْيَانَ عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي لَيْلَى عَنِ الْحَكَمِ عَنْ شُرَيْحٍ قَالَ

يُبْدَأُ بِالْعَتَاقَةِ قَبْلَ الْوَصَايَا