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179 – Ahmad ibn Ibrahim related to us; Yahya ibn al-Muthanna al-Halabi related to us; I heard Sufyan ibn ʿUyaynah say: “A man from Kufa had lapsed into an ignoble trait, and when Allah spared him from that conduct, he set free one of his slave-girls in gratitude.”
١٧٩ - حَدَّثَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ، ثنا يَحْيَى بْنُ الْمُثَنَّى الْحَلَبِيُّ، سَمِعْتُ سُفْيَانَ بْنَ عُيَيْنَةَ، يَقُولُ: «عَمِلَ رَجُلٌ مِنْ أَهْلِ الْكُوفَةِ بِخُلُقٍ دَنِيءٍ فَأَعْتَقَ جَارِيَةً لَهُ إِذْ عَافَاهُ اللَّهُ مِنْ ذَلِكَ الْخُلُقِ»