Sahih Muslim, 387

Rapporté par Sha'bi رضي الله عنه : Un habitant du Khurasan lui a demandé : « Ô Abu ! Certains parmi nous disent qu’un homme qui affranchit sa servante puis l’épouse est comme celui qui monte une bête de sacrifice. » Sha'bi a répondu : Abu Burda b. Abi Musa m’a rapporté de la part de son père que le Messager d’Allah ﷺ a dit : « Il y a trois catégories de personnes qui recevront une double récompense : Celui des Gens du Livre qui a cru en son prophète, puis a vécu à l’époque du Prophète Muhammad ﷺ, a cru en lui, l’a suivi et a attesté sa véracité : il aura une double récompense. L’esclave qui accomplit ses devoirs envers Allah et envers son maître : il aura une double récompense. Et l’homme qui avait une servante, l’a bien nourrie, bien éduquée, puis l’a affranchie et épousée : il aura une double récompense. » Puis Sha'bi a dit : « Accepte ce hadith sans rien demander. Avant, on devait voyager jusqu’à Médine pour un hadith même plus court que celui-ci. » Ce hadith a aussi été rapporté par une autre chaîne de transmetteurs, comme Abu Bakr b. Abi Shaiba, 'Abda b. Sulaiman, Ibn Abi 'Umar, Sufyan, 'Ubaidullah b. Mu'adh, Shu'ba ; tous l’ont entendu de Salih b. Salih

It is narrated on the authority of Sha'bi that one among the citizens of Khurasan asked him:0 Abu! some of the people amongst us who belong to Khurasan say that a person who freed his bondswoman and then married her is like one who rode over a sacrificial animal. Sha'bi said: Abu Burda b. Abi Musa narrated it to me on the authority of his father that verily the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: There are three (classes of persons) who would be given a double reward. One who is amongst the People of the Book and believed in his apostle and (lived) to see the time of Apostle Muhammad (ﷺ) and affirmed his faith in him and followed him and attested his truth, for him is the double reward; and the slave of the master who discharges all those obligations that he owes to Allah and discharges his duties that he owes to his master, for him there is a double reward. And a man who had a bondswoman and fed her and fed her well, then taught her good manners, and did that well and later on granted her freedom and married her, for him is the double reward. Then Sha'bi said: Accept this hadith without (giving) anything. Formerly a man was (obliged) to travel to Medina even for a smaller hadith than this. This hadith has been narrated by another chain of transmitters like Abu Bakr b. Abi Shaiba, 'Abda b. Sulaiman Ibn Abi 'Umar Sufyan, 'Ubaidullah b. Mu'adh, Shu'ba; all of them heard it from Salih b. Salih