4360 - Qutaybah ibn Sa'id narrated to us, Humayd ibn Abd al-Rahman narrated to us, from his father, from Abu Ishaq, from al-Sha'bi, from Jarir, who said: I heard the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, say: "If a slave flees to polytheism, his blood has become lawful."

(1) A sound hadith. This chain has been disputed regarding whether it is stopped at Abu Ishaq—who is Amr ibn Abd Allah al-Sabi'i—or raised to the Prophet, but the stopping of it by those who stopped it does no harm, because it is established as raised through other than the path of Abu Ishaq al-Sabi'i, and because it is in the ruling of a raised hadith.

Al-Nasa'i also recorded it in al-Kubra (3501) from Qutaybah ibn Sa'id, with this chain.

Al-Nasa'i also recorded it (3502) via the path of al-Qasim ibn Yazid, from Isra'il ibn Yunus al-Sabi'i, from his grandfather, with it.

Khalid ibn Abd al-Rahman and Ahmad ibn Khalid al-Wahbi differed with al-Qasim in what al-Nasa'i recorded (3503) and (3504), as they narrated it from Isra'il, from his grandfather, as stopped.

It was also recorded as raised by Muslim (69) via the path of Dawud ibn Abi Hind, and by al-Nasa'i (3498) via the path of Mansur ibn al-Mu'tamir, and by Muslim (70) and al-Nasa'i (3499) via the path of Jarir ibn Abd al-Hamid, from Mughirah ibn Miqsam—all three of them (Dawud, Mansur ibn al-Mu'tamir, and Mughirah), from al-Sha'bi, with it. The wording of Dawud is: "Any slave who flees, the covenant of protection is absolved from him." The wording of Mansur is: "If a slave flees, no prayer is accepted from him until he returns to his masters." Likewise is the wording of Mughirah, except that he said: "And if he dies, he dies a disbeliever," instead of "until he returns..."

Isra'il differed with Jarir ibn Abd al-Hamid in what al-Nasa'i recorded (3500), as he narrated it from Mughirah ibn Miqsam, from al-Sha'bi, with it as stopped.

Muslim also recorded it (68) via the path of Mansur ibn Abd al-Rahman, from al-Sha'bi, from Jarir, that he heard him say: "Any slave who flees from his masters has disbelieved, until he returns to them." Mansur said: "By Allah, it has indeed been narrated from the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, but I dislike that it be narrated from me here in Basra." We say: This means that the narration of Mansur is raised.

It is also in Musnad Ahmad (19155), (19240), (19242), and (19243). See the complete discussion of it and the detailed account of its citation there.