Sahih Muslim Hadith 4301 – Treatment Of

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[4301] 31 – (1658) It was narrated that Mu'âwiyah 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 , we Banü Muqarrin had only one servant. One of us slapped her and news of that reached the Prophet . 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."