Sahih Muslim Book - 27, Hadith - 4301

حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِى شَيْبَةَ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ نُمَيْرٍ ح وَحَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ نُمَيْرٍ - وَاللَّفْظُ لَهُ - حَدَّثَنَا أَبِى حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ عَنْ سَلَمَةَ بْنِ كُهَيْلٍ عَنْ مُعَاوِيَةَ بْنِ سُوَيْدٍ قَالَ لَطَمْتُ مَوْلًى لَنَا فَهَرَبْتُ ثُمَّ جِئْتُ قُبَيْلَ الظُّهْرِ فَصَلَّيْتُ خَلْفَ أَبِى فَدَعَاهُ وَدَعَانِى ثُمَّ قَالَ امْتَثِلْ مِنْهُ. فَعَفَا ثُمَّ قَالَ كُنَّا بَنِى مُقَرِّنٍ عَلَى عَهْدِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ -صلى الله عليه وسلم- لَيْسَ لَنَا إِلاَّ خَادِمٌ وَاحِدَةٌ فَلَطَمَهَا أَحَدُنَا فَبَلَغَ ذَلِكَ النَّبِىَّ -صلى الله عليه وسلم- فَقَالَ « أَعْتِقُوهَا ». قَالُوا لَيْسَ لَهُمْ خَادِمٌ غَيْرُهَا قَالَ « فَلْيَسْتَخْدِمُوهَا فَإِذَا اسْتَغْنَوْا عَنْهَا فَلْيُخَلُّوا سَبِيلَهَا ».

It was narrated that Mu'awiyah bin Suwaid said: "I slapped a freed slave of ours and he ran away. Then I came just before Zuhr and prayed behind my father. He called him, and called for me, then he said: 'Do to him what he did to you,' but he let me go. Then he said: 'At the time of the Messenger of Allah (s.a.w), we Banu Muqarrin had only one servant. One of us slapped her and news of that reached the Prophet (s.a.w) He said: 'Manumit her.' They said: 'They do not have any other servant.' He said: 'Then let them keep her, and when they no longer need her, they should let her go.'"