Slaves

We were ordered to free slaves at the time of lunar eclipses.

That he was sold (as a slave) by one master to another for more than ten times (i.e between 13 and 19).

I saw him as a slave, (namely, Barira's husband).

Jabir said: An Ansari man made his slave a Mudabbar and he had no other property than him. When the Prophet (ﷺ) heard of that, he said (to his companions), "Who wants to buy him (i.e., the slave) for...

It is essential to feed the slave, clothe him (properly) and not burden him with work which is beyond his power.

Who will buy him from me? And Nu'aim b. al-Nahham bought him for eight hundred dirhams and he handed them over to him, 'Amr (one of the narrators) said: I heard Jabir b. 'Abdullah as saying: He was a ...

" An Abyssinian slave maimed and disabled."

"An Abyssinian slave."

In other versions of the above tradition, the wordings are" an Abyssinian slave." and" a maimed Abyssinian slave".

Ibn Mas'ud sold slaves to al-Ash'ath b. Qais. He then narrated the rest of the tradition to the same effect with some variation of words.