Islam and Slavery — Page 38
38. Hasan Basri and Mujahid. Tasawwuf and the science. Moosa bin Uqba and. Similarly. Nafi', the freed slave of Ibn-i-Omar, Ikrimah the freed slave of Ibn-i-Abbas, Makhul bin Abdullah, 'Ata bin abi Ribah, Abdullah bin Mubarak, and Ahmad bin. Sirin were recognised as Imams in the science of Hadith and jurisprudence, and many eminent persons looked upon it as an honour to be their pupils. bin Jubair stood unrivalled in of Qir'at respectively, while. Muhammad bin Ishaq were universally acknowledged authorities in history and biography, yet all these once belonged to the rank and file of slaves. (1) Again, the. Slave Dynasty of India, some members of which won great distinction for their able statesmanship and masterly administration, is too well-known to need any introduction. . These brilliant examples (which have been mentioned only by way of specimen, otherwise Islamic history teems with such instances) are the fruit of the Islamic system of emancipation. But what fruit did the course taken by western reformers bear? Do we meet even with a single instance through the length and breadth of Europe and. America, or in the continents of Africa and Australia, in which any of the emancipated slaves distinguished himself in any sphere of life? What we see is that even after emancipation the slaves continued to belong to the same common run of humanity as before, which clearly shows that the Islamic system of emancipating the slaves was decidedly much more beneficial and attended with far greater blessings. (1) Tahzib Al-Tahzib and Mizan Al-I'tidal.