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Abd bin Zama and Sad bin Abi Waqqas carried the case of their claim of the (ownership) of the son of a slave-qirl of Zama before the Prophet (SAW). Sad said, "O Allah's Apostle (SAW)! My brother, before his death, told me that when I would return (to Makkah), I should search for the son of the slave-girl of Zama and take him into my custody as he was his son." 'Abd bin Zama said, 'the is my brother and the son of the slave-girl of my father, and was born or my father's bed." The Prophet (SAW) noticed a resemblance between Utba and the boy but he said, "O 'Abd bin Zama! You will get this boy, as the son goes to the owner of the bed. You, Sauda, screen yourself from the boy."

The Prophet (SAW) sent for a woman from the emigrants and she had a slave who was a carpenter. The Prophet (SAW) said to her "Order your slave to prepare the wood (pieces) for the pulpit." So, she ordered her slave who went and cut the wood from the tamarisk and prepared the pulpit, for the Prophet (SAW). When he finished the pulpit, the woman informed the Prophet (SAW) that it had been finished. The Prophet (SAW) asked her to send that pulpit to him, so they brought it. The Prophet (SAW) lifted it and placed it at the place in which you see now."

The Prophet (SAW) said, "He who has a slave-girl and teaches her good manners and improves her education and then manumits and marries her, will get a double reward; and any slave who observes Allah's right and his master's right will get a double reward."

(The brother of the wife of Allah's Apostle (SAW). Juwairiya bint Al-Harith) When Allah's Apostle (SAW) died, he did not leave any Dirham or Dinar (i.e. money), a slave or a slave woman or anything else except his white mule, his arms and a piece of land which he had given in charity.

(the wife of the Prophet (SAW)) that she manumitted her slave-girl and the Prophet (SAW) said to her, "You would have got more reward if you had given the slave-girl to one of your maternal uncles."

I saw my father buying a slave whose profession was cupping, and ordered that his instruments (of cupping) be broken. I asked him the reason for doing so. He replied, "Allah's Apostle prohibited taking money for blood, the price of a dog, and the earnings of a slave-girl by prostitution; he cursed her who tattoos and her who gets tattooed, the eater of Riba (usury), and the maker of pictures."

I intended to buy Barira but her masters stipulated that her Wala should be for them. When the Prophet (SAW) was told about it, he said to me, "Buy and manumit her, as the Wala is for the liberator." Once Barira was given some meat, and the Prophet (SAW) asked, "What is this?" I said, "It has been given to Barira in charity." He said, "It is sadaqa for her but a gift for us." Barira was given the option (to stay with her husband or to part with him). Abdur Rahman (a sub-narrator) wondered, "Was her husband a slave or a free man?" Shuba (another sub-narrator) said, "I asked Abdur-Rahman whether her husband was a slave or a free man. He replied that he did not know whether he was a slave or a free man."

The Prophet (SAW) said, "You should not say, 'Feed your lord (Rabbaka), help your lord in performing ablution, or give water to your lord' but should say, 'my master (e.g. Feed your master instead of lord) (Saiyidi)', or my guardian (Maulai), and one should not say, my slave (Abdi), or my girl-slave (Amati), but should say, my lad (Fatai), my lass (Fatati), and 'my boy (Ghulami).' "

There was a black slave girl belonging to an 'Arab tribe and they manumitted her but she remained with them. The slave girl said, "Once one of their girls (of that tribe) came out wearing a red leather scarf decorated with precious stones. It fell from her or she placed it somewhere. A kite passed by that place, saw it Lying there and mistaking it for a piece of meat, flew away with it. Those people searched for it but they did not find it. So they accused me of stealing it and started searching me and even searched my private parts." The slave girl further said, "By Allah! while I was standing (in that state) with those people, the same kite passed by them and dropped the red scarf and it fell amongst them. I told them, 'This is what you accused me of and I was innocent and now this is it.' " 'Aisha added: That slave girl came to Allah's Apostle and embraced Islam. She had a tent or a small room with a low roof in the mosque. Whenever she called on me, she had a talk with me and whenever she sat with me, she would recite the following: "The day of the scarf (band) was one of the wonders of our Lord, verily He rescued me from the disbelievers' town. 'Aisha added: "Once I asked her, 'What is the matter with you? Whenever you sit with me, you always recite these poetic verses.' On that she told me the whole story. "

Allah's Apostle said "Three persons will have a double reward: 1. A Person from the people of the scriptures who believed in his prophet (Jesus or Moses) and then believed in the Prophet Muhammad (i .e. has embraced Islam). 2. A slave who discharges his duties to Allah and his master. 3. A master of a woman-slave who teaches her good manners and educates her in the best possible way (the religion) and manumits her and then marries her."