freeing two women is equivalent to freeing one man. Thus, in Jāmi‘ al-Tirmidhī (1) and elsewhere, Abū Umāmah reported that the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said:

“Any Muslim man who frees a Muslim man will find in him deliverance from the Fire, each limb of the freed man ransoming a limb of his own. Any Muslim man who frees two Muslim women will find in them deliverance (2) from the Fire, each limb of theirs ransoming a limb of his own. Any Muslim woman who frees a Muslim woman will find in her deliverance from the Fire, each limb of the freed woman ransoming a limb of her own.”

This is an authentic hadith.

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Abū Dāwūd related in al-Marāsīl (3), from Ja‘far ibn Muhammad, from his father, that the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, instructed, concerning the birth sacrifice that Fātimah offered on behalf of al-Hasan and al-Husayn, that a leg be sent to the midwife’s household, saying: “Eat of it, feed others, and do not break any of its bones.”

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Ibn Ayman (4) related, in a hadith narrated by Anas (5), that the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, offered a birth sacrifice on his own behalf after