The ruling on the reward of one who frees a slave as expiation
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Question:
May Allah reward you, Your Eminence, father. The questioner says: I had an expiation due to me, which was freeing a slave, and praise be to Allah, I have freed it. Does the hadith of Abu Hurayrah in the two Sahihs apply to me?Sahih al-Bukhari 6715
Answer:
You did not free it for the sake of drawing near to Allah; rather, you freed it to clear your conscience, to clear your conscience from the killing or from the expiation. So your conscience is cleared by this; your conscience is cleared by this. As for whether you receive the reward of one who frees a slave absolutely, and not for a specific cause, I do not know. Yes.
May Allah reward you, Your Eminence, father. The questioner says: I had an expiation due to me, which was freeing a slave, and praise be to Allah, I have freed it. Does the hadith of Abu Hurayrah in the two Sahihs apply to me?
If somebody manumits a Muslim slave, Allah will save from the Fire every part of his body for freeing the corresponding parts of the slave's body
من أعتق رقبة مسلمة أعتق الله بكل عضو منه عضوا من النارAnswer:
You did not free it for the sake of drawing near to Allah; rather, you freed it to clear your conscience, to clear your conscience from the killing or from the expiation. So your conscience is cleared by this; your conscience is cleared by this. As for whether you receive the reward of one who frees a slave absolutely, and not for a specific cause, I do not know. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، من كان عليه عتق رقبة فأعتقها، هل يشمله حديث من أعتق رقبة مسلمة... للشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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