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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
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»  

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Collected by Aḥmad, Nasāʾī's Kubrá, 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  

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  

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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