Volume 3, Book 46, Number 715:
Narrated Hisham:
My father told me that Hakim bin Hizam manumitted one-hundred slaves in the pre-lslamic peri –
od of ignorance and slaughtered one-hundred camels (and distributed them in charity). When he
embraced Islam he again slaughtered one-hundred camels and manumitted one-hundred slaves.
Hakim said, “I asked Allah’s Apostle, ‘O Allah’s Apostle! What do you think about some good deeds I
used to practice in the prelslamic period of ignorance regarding them as deeds of righteousness?’ Al –
lah’s Apostle said, “You have embraced Islam along with all those good deeds you did.”