صحيح الادب المفرد
Sahih al-Adab al-Mufrad
Part One: Ahadith 1 to 249
باب سوء الملكة
Bad treatment of servants
Hadith Number: 119
119/159 عن ابي الدرداء؛ انه كان يقول الناس:"نحن اعرف بكم من البياطرة بالدواب؛ قد عرفنا خياركم من شراركم. اما خياركم: الذي يرجى خيره، ويؤمن شره. واما شراركم: فالذي لا يرجى خيره، ولا يؤمن شره، ولا يعتق محرره"(1).
It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Darda’ (may Allah be pleased with him) that he used to say to the people:“We recognize you better than animal doctors recognize animals. We have recognized the good and the bad among you. Your good ones are those from whom good is expected and from whose evil people are safe. And your bad ones are those from whom no good is expected and from whose evil people are not safe, and whose freed slave is not made a slave again.”(That is, after freeing a person, one should not keep making him work by reminding him of the favor.)
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