Muwatta Malik: Book 40, Hadith 1 Yahya related to me that Malik said, “What is done in our community in the case of a man who makes his slave-girl a mudabbara and she gives birth to children after that, and then the slave-girl dies before the one who gave her a tadbir is that her […]
Muwatta Malik is one of the earliest and most respected collections of hadith and Islamic jurisprudence, compiled by Imam Malik ibn Anas. It combines the sayings and actions of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) with the practices of the people of Madinah, serving as a foundational text for Maliki fiqh and Islamic legal tradition.
Book 40, The Mudabbar, discusses the rulings related to slave contracts with deferred emancipation.
Muwatta Malik: Book 40, Hadith 2 Malik spoke about a mudabbar who said to his master, “Free me immediately and I will give fifty dinars which I will have to pay in instalments.” His master said, “Yes. You are free and you must pay fifty dinars, and you will pay me ten dinars every year.” […]
Muwatta Malik: Book 40, Hadith 3 Malik said, “The generally agreed-on way of doing things in our community is that any setting-free which a man makes in a bequest that he wills in health or illness can be rescinded by him when he likes and changed when he likes as long as it is not […]
Muwatta Malik: Book 40, Hadith 4 Malik related to me from Nafi that Abdullah ibn Umar made two of his slave-girls mudabbara, and he had intercourse with them while they were mudabbara. حَدَّثَنِي مَالِكٌ، عَنْ نَافِعٍ، أَنَّ عَبْدَ اللَّهِ بْنَ عُمَرَ، دَبَّرَ جَارِيَتَيْنِ لَهُ فَكَانَ يَطَؤُهُمَا وَهُمَا مُدَبَّرَتَانِ . Muwatta Malik: Book 40, Hadith 4 […]
Muwatta Malik: Book 40, Hadith 5 Malik related to me from Yahya ibn Said that Said ibn al-Musayyab used to say, “When a man makes his slave-girl mudabbara, he can have intercourse with her. He cannot sell her or give her away and her children are in the same position as her.” وَحَدَّثَنِي مَالِكٌ، عَنْ […]
Muwatta Malik: Book 40, Hadith 6 Malik said, “The generally agreed on way of doing things in our community about a mudabbar is that the owner cannot sell him or change the position in which he has put him. If a debt overtakes the master, his creditors cannot sell the mudabbar as long as the […]
Muwatta Malik: Book 40, Hadith 7 Malik related to me that he heard that Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz gave a judgement about the mudabbar who did an injury. He said, “The master must surrender what he owns of him to the injured person. He is made to serve the injured person and recompense (in the […]
Muwatta Malik: Book 40, Hadith 8 Malik said in the case of an umm walad who injured someone, “The blood-money of that injury is the responsibility of her master from his property, unless the blood-money of the injury is greater than the value of the umm walad. Her master does not have to pay more […]