(Second chain) It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) that he was beating his slave. The Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said to him: By Allah! Allah Almighty has more power over you than you have over him. He said: O Messenger of Allah! I free him for the pleasure of Allah Almighty.

Zadhan says that Sayyiduna Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) called one of his slaves and set him free, and while picking up something from the ground and pointing towards it, he said: In this act, there is not even as much reward for me, because I heard the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) say that whoever slaps his slave, its expiation is that he should set him free.

Sayyiduna Muawiyah bin Hakam Sulami (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates one of his hadiths: I had a slave girl who used to graze my sheep towards Uhud and Jawaniyah. One day, when I made a sudden visit to her, I saw that a wolf had taken away one of the sheep. I am a human being and, like humans, I get angry, so I struck her forcefully. When I came to the Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) and related this incident to him, he considered my striking her to be a very grave (offense) on my part. I said: O Messenger of Allah! Should I not set her free? The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Bring her to me. So I brought her to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him). He asked her: Where is Allah? She replied: In the heavens. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) asked: Who am I? She replied: You are the Messenger of Allah. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Set her free, for she is a believer. The narrator once reported it in these words: She is a believer, so set her free.

It is narrated from Muawiyah bin Suwaid, he says: I slapped one of my slaves, then when I came, my father was leading the Zuhr prayer, I prayed with him, when he finished the prayer, he held my hand and said to the slave: Take retribution from him, but he forgave me. Then he began to narrate this hadith: In the time of the Prophet, we were seven individuals from the descendants of Muqrin, and we had only one slave girl. One of us slapped her. When the Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) found out about this, he said: Set her free. We said: O Messenger of Allah, we have only this one slave girl. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Then let these people take service from her, but as soon as they become well-off, set her free.

(Second Chain) It is narrated from Sayyiduna Suwaid bin Muqarrin (may Allah be pleased with him) that a man slapped a slave girl belonging to the family of Suwaid bin Muqarrin. Sayyiduna Suwaid (may Allah be pleased with him) said to him: Do you not know that the face is sacred? I was the seventh among my brothers, meaning we were seven brothers and we had only one maidservant. When one of us slapped her, the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) commanded us to set her free.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Amr bin Aas (may Allah be pleased with him) that Abu Ruh Zinba’ found his slave with his slave-girl, so he cut off his nose and uprooted his testicles. When that slave came to the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), he (peace and blessings be upon him) asked: Who did this to you? He said: Zinba’ did. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) called him and said: What made you do this? He said: This and this happened with him. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said to the slave: Go, you are free. He said: O Messenger of Allah! Now whose slave am I? The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: You are the slave of Allah and His Messenger. Then the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) advised the Muslims regarding him. When the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) passed away, this slave came to Sayyiduna Abu Bakr (may Allah be pleased with him) and said: The will of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him). He said: Yes, all right, we will provide for you and your family, and then he arranged for his expenses. When Sayyiduna Abu Bakr (may Allah be pleased with him) passed away and Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) became the caliph, he came to him and said: The will of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him). Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) asked: Where do you want to live? He said: In Egypt. So Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) wrote to the governor of Egypt to give this man so much land that his sustenance would be maintained from it.

(Second chain) It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Amr bin al-As (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Any slave who is mutilated or burned with fire will become free and will become a slave of Allah and His Messenger. After this, a slave named Sundar was brought who had been castrated; the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) ordered his freedom. Then, after the passing of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), he came to Sayyiduna Abu Bakr (may Allah be pleased with him), and he also treated him well. Then, after the death of Sayyiduna Abu Bakr (may Allah be pleased with him), he came to Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him), and he also dealt with him kindly. Then, when he wished to go towards Egypt, Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) wrote to Sayyiduna Amr bin al-As (may Allah be pleased with him) that he should treat this person well, or he wrote that he should observe the will of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) regarding him.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Hurairah (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Prophet of Repentance (may Allah be pleased with him) said: Whoever accuses his slave of something, while the slave is innocent of it, then on the Day of Resurrection, such a master will be punished with the prescribed punishment, unless the slave turns out to be as he had said.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Dharr (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Whoever does not see his slave-girl committing adultery, yet still accuses her of adultery, Allah Almighty will strike that person with a whip of fire on the Day of Resurrection.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Umar, may Allah be pleased with him, that a man came to the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, and said: O Messenger of Allah! I have a slave who behaves indecently, commits mistakes, and acts unjustly. Can I punish him? The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said: Forgive him seventy times a day.