Information for "SahihMuslim-017-001-18676"

It is narrated on the authority of Shabi that one among the citizens of Khurasan asked him: 0 Abu! some of the people amongst us who belong to Khurasan say that a person who freed his bondswoman and then married her is like one who rode over a sacrificial animal. Shabi said: Abu Burda Bin Abi Mousa narrated it to me on the authority of his father that verily the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: There are three classes of persons who would be given a double reward. One who is amongst the People of the Book and believed in his apostle and lived to see the time of Apostle Muhammad ﷺ and affirmed his faith in him and followed him and attested his truth; for him is the double reward; and the slave of the master who discharges all those obligations that he owes to Allah and discharges his duties that he owes to his master; for him there is a double reward. And a man who had a bondswoman and fed her and fed her well; then taught her good manners; and did that well and later on granted her freedom and married her; for him is the double reward. Then Shabi said: Accept this hadith without giving anything. Formerly a man was obliged to travel to Medina even for a smaller hadith than this.