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Authentic hadithUpdated on 24 September 2026 at 12:34 AM
📖 1 min readعن عَبْدُ الله بن عمر رضي الله عنهما عن النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم قال: «مَن أَعْتَقَ شِرْكًا له في عَبْدٍ، فكان له مالٌ يَبْلُغُ ثَمَنَ العَبْدِ: قُوِّمَ عليه قِيمَةَ عَدْلٍ ، فأعطى شُرَكَاءَهُ حِصَصَهُمْ، وعَتَقَ عليه العَبْدُ ، وإلا فقد عَتَقَ منه ما عَتَقَ».
If a person has a share, albeit small, to the ownership of a slave, male or female, and he manumits part of it, the slave will be manumitted as much as this part. If the manumitter is well-to-do enough to afford to pay the share of his partner, he ought to manumit the slave wholly, assessing his partner's market value and giving it to him. If he is not that rich, however, he can manumit the slave partially, as much as his share in his ownership, with the rest remaining in bondage.
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