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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
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السيوطي:١٧٩١١a –

"لَوْ كَانَ ثَابِتٌ عَلَى أَحَدٍ مِنَ العَرَبِ رِقٌ كَانَ اليَوْمَ، إِنَّمَا هُوَ إِسَارٌ وَفِدَاء".  

[طب] الطبرانى في الكبير عن معاذ

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tabarani:17553 – Aḥmad b. Rishdīn > Aḥmad b. Ṣāliḥ > Ibn Wahb > Yazīd b. ʿIyāḍ > Mūsá b. Muḥammad al-Taymī > Ibn Shihāb > al-Balawī > Muʿādh b. Jabal

[Machine] The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "If slavery were established upon anyone among the Arabs, it would be considered either a left hand (cheap) or expiation."  

الطبراني:١٧٥٥٣ – حَدَّثَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ رِشْدِينَ ثنا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ صَالِحٍ ثنا ابْنُ وَهْبٍ أَخْبَرَنِي يَزِيدُ بْنُ عِيَاضٍ عَنْ مُوسَى بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ التَّيْمِيِّ عَنِ ابْنِ شِهَابٍ عَنِ الْبَلَوِيِّ عَنْ مُعَاذِ بْنِ جَبَلٍ

أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ قَالَ «لَوْ كَانَ ثَابِتًا عَلَى أَحَدٍ مِنَ الْعَرَبِ رِقٌّ كَانَ الْيَوْمَ إِنَّمَا هُوَ إِسَارٌ أَوْ فِدَاءٌ»