And ‘Abd al-Wārith ibn ‘Abd al-Ṣamad narrated to us, my father narrated to me, Shu‘bah narrated to us, he said: Muḥammad ibn al-Munkadir said to me, “What is your name?” I said, “Shu‘bah.” Then Muḥammad said: Abū Shu‘bah al-‘Irāqī narrated to me, from Suwayd ibn Muqarrin, that a man slapped a slave-girl of his, and Suwayd said to him, “Do you not know that the face is forbidden [to strike]?” He said, “Indeed, I recall that I was the seventh of my brothers with the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, and we had no servant other than one. One of us went and slapped him, so the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, commanded us to free him.”