Yahya ibn Yahya narrated to us, Hushaym informed us, from Salih ibn Salih al-Hamdani, from al-Sha'bi, who said: I saw a man from the people of Khurasan ask al-Sha'bi, saying: "O Abu 'Amr, those of our people from Khurasan say concerning a man who frees his slave-girl and then marries her, that he is like one who rides his sacrificial camel." Al-Sha'bi said: Abu Burda ibn Abu Musa narrated to me, from his father, that the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said: "Three will be given their reward twice: a man from the People of the Book who believed in his prophet and then reached the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, and believed in him, followed him, and affirmed him—he will have two rewards; and a slave who fulfilled the right of Allah the Exalted and the right of his master—he will have two rewards; and a man who had a slave-girl, and he fed her and fed her well, then taught her and taught her well, then freed her and married her—he will have two rewards." Then al-Sha'bi said to the Khurasani: "Take this hadith for nothing, for a man would travel to Medina for less than this."

And Abu Bakr ibn Abu Shayba narrated to us, Abdah ibn Sulayman narrated to us—and Ibn Abu Umar narrated to us, Sufyan narrated to us—and Ubaydullah ibn Mu'adh narrated to us, my father narrated to us, Shu'ba narrated to us—all of them from Salih ibn Salih, with this chain of transmission, similar to it.