1119 – From ʿImrān ibn Ḥuṣayn (may Allah be pleased with him): “The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) ransomed two Muslims for one polytheist.” Related by al-Tirmidhī, who declared it sound; its principal wording is recorded by Muslim. (1)

1120 – From Jubayr ibn Muṭʿim (may Allah be pleased with him): the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said about the prisoners of Badr, “Had Muṭʿim ibn ʿAdī been alive and spoken to me regarding these vile captives, I would have released them to him.” Narrated by al-Bukhārī. (2)

Vocabulary of the two ḥadiths:
– fadā: One says, “He ransomed him from captivity, he ransoms him a fidāʾ,” meaning he rescued him with money or some other means; the rescuer is called fād, and the one rescued is mufdā.
– asārā: plural of asīr; it is also pluralized as asrā, like sukārā and sukrā. An asīr is a person bound with leather thongs or the like, yet every captive is termed asīr even if not actually tied.
– Muṭʿim ibn ʿAdī: son of Nawfal ibn ʿAbd Manāf and brother of Tuʿaymah mentioned earlier. Muṭʿim was one of the leaders of Quraysh. When the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) returned from Ṭāʾif he entered Mecca under Muṭʿim’s protection. Muṭʿim was among the five men who annulled the boycott scroll and died roughly seven months before Badr. In some reports the Prophet said to Jubayr, “Had your elderly father been alive and approached us about them, we would have granted his intercession,” intending to repay him for his noble deed.
– al-natnā: Al-Nihāyah says: al-natnā—its singular is natn, analogous to zaman and zamnā; he also says