Hadith #279

Arabic Text

English Translation

Wakīʿ narrated from al-Aʿmash, from Ṭalḥah ibn Muṣarrif, from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAwsajah, from al-Barāʾ ibn ʿĀzib, who said: 'the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: "Whoever gives a gift of silver, or a gift of milk, or guides along a pathway — it is for him the equivalent of freeing a slave." And he said on another occasion: "the equivalent of emancipating a slave."'