Jami' at-Tirmidhi — Hadith #27442

Al-Hasan bin Qazah told us, Abd al-Rahman bin Mahdi told us, on the authority of Hammad bin Salamah, on the authority of al-Hajjaj, on the authority of al-Hakam, on the authority of Maymun bin Abi Shabib, on the authority of Ali, said: The Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, gave me two young brothers, so I sold one of them, and the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, said to me: He greeted him, “O Ali, what did your boy do?” So I told him, and he said, “Return him, return him.” Abu Issa said, “This is a good, strange hadith.” Some of the people of knowledge among the Companions of the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, and others disliked the distinction between captives in selling, and it is disliked to differentiate between The mother and her child, between the father and the child, and between brothers and sisters in the sale. Some scholars have permitted the distinction between Mawlids who were born in the land of Islam. The first saying is more correct. It was narrated on the authority of Ibrahim al-Nakha’i that he distinguished between A mother and her child were for sale, and he was told about that, and he said, “I asked her for permission to do that, and I agreed.”