It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "There are three people whom it is a right upon Allah Almighty to help: the mukatab slave who intends to pay (his ransom), the one who wages jihad in the path of Allah, and the one who marries intending to remain chaste." This hadith is sahih (authentic) on the condition of Imam Muslim, but the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim) did not record it.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Sahl bin Hunayf (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Whoever helps a mujahid in the path of Allah, or a fighter, or a debtor in his hardship, or a mukatab slave in freeing his neck, Allah Almighty will shade him in His shade on the Day when there will be no shade except His shade." This hadith has an authentic chain (sahih al-isnad), but the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim) did not record it.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna al-Bara' bin Azib (may Allah be pleased with him) that a Bedouin came to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) and said: O Messenger of Allah! Teach me a deed that will admit me into Paradise. He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Although you have made your words brief, you have asked about something very great: free a soul and release a neck." He said: Are these two not one and the same thing? He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "No! Freeing a soul means that you alone take on the responsibility of freeing it, while releasing a neck means that you assist in paying its price. Also included in this are lending a milch animal for its benefit, and doing kindness to an oppressive close relative (who does not keep ties of kinship). Then if you are not able to do that, feed the hungry, give water to the thirsty, enjoin good and forbid evil; and if you are not able to do even that, then restrain your tongue from everything except good." This hadith has an authentic chain (sahih al-isnad), but the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim) did not record it.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Salman al-Farisi (may Allah be pleased with him) that he said: I made a contract of manumission (mukatabah) with my owners on the condition that I would plant five hundred date-palm saplings for them, and when they took root I would be free. I came to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) and mentioned this to him. He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Plant them and make the condition with them (about their success), and when you intend to plant them, inform me." So he (peace and blessings be upon him) came and began planting them. Except for one sapling which I had planted with my own hand, all of them turned green (took root), except that one sapling. This hadith of Asim bin Sulayman al-Ahwal is sahih (authentic) on the condition of the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim), but they did not record it.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Amr bin al-As (may Allah be pleased with them both) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Any mukatab slave whose contract was made for one thousand uqiyah and who paid all of it except ten uqiyah, he is (still) a slave; and any mukatab whose contract was made for one hundred dinars and who paid all of it except ten dinars, he is (also) a slave." This hadith has an authentic chain (sahih al-isnad), but the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim) did not record it.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) ruled concerning the mukatab slave that (blood money) is to be paid for him according to the blood money of a free man, in proportion to what he has paid (of his contract price). Ikrimah (may Allah have mercy on him) narrated from Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) that the prescribed punishment (hadd) of a slave is to be carried out on (such a person). This hadith is sahih (authentic) on the condition of Imam Bukhari, but the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim) did not record it.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The blood money of a mukatab (slave) will be paid according to the proportion of his freedom at the rate of a free (person), and for the portion of slavery that remains, the reckoning will be according to that of a slave." This hadith is sahih (authentic) on the condition of Imam Bukhari, but the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim) did not record it.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "When a mukatab slave becomes liable to a prescribed punishment (hadd), or he receives an inheritance, he will receive inheritance according to the proportion of his freedom, and the prescribed punishment will be carried out on him to the same extent (in proportion to his freedom)." This hadith has an authentic chain (sahih al-isnad), but the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim) did not record it.

It is narrated from Nabhan, the mukatab slave of the Mother of the Believers, Sayyidah Umm Salamah (may Allah be pleased with her), that he said: I was holding the reins of her mount at al-Bayda' or al-Abwa'. She asked: Who is this? I said: I am Nabhan. She said: I have left the remaining amount of your contract (mukatabah) for my nephew, Muhammad bin Abdullah bin Abi Umayyah, so that he may be helped with it in his marriage. He said: I said: By Allah! I will never pay it. She said: If your purpose (in not paying the amount) is to come in to me or to see me, then by Allah, you will never see me, for I heard the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) saying: "When the mukatab has (wealth) available to pay, then observe hijab from him." This hadith has an authentic chain (sahih al-isnad), but the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim) did not record it.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Tamim al-Dari (may Allah be pleased with him) that he said: O Messenger of Allah! If a man from among the polytheists accepts Islam at the hands of a Muslim man (what is the ruling)? He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "He (the Muslim) has the greater right to him in his life and in his death." This hadith is sahih (authentic) on the condition of Imam Muslim, but the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim) did not record it, and Abdullah bin Wahb bin Zam'ah is a well-known narrator.