Malik related to me from Yahya ibn Said that Abu'd-Darda wrote toSalman al-Farsi, "Come immediately to the holy land." Salman wroteback to him, "Land does not make anyone holy. Man's deeds make himholy. I have heard that you were put up as a doctor to treat and curepeople. If you are innocent, then may you have delight! If you are aquack, then beware lest you kill a man and enter the Fire!" WhenAbu'd-Darda judged between two men, and they turned from him to go, hewould look at them and say, "Come back to me, and tell me your storyagain. A quack! By Allah!"Yahya said that he heard Maliksay, "If someone makes use of a slave, without permission of itsmaster, in anything important to him, whose like has a fee, he isliable for what befalls the slave if anything befalls him. If theslave is safe and his master asks for his wage for what he has done,that is the master's right. This is what is done in our community."Yahya said that he heard Malik say about a slave who is partfree and part enslaved, "His property is suspended in his hand and hecannot begin anything with it. He eats from it and clothes himself inan approved fashion. If he dies, his property belongs to the one towhom he is in slavery."Yahya said that he heard Malik say,"The way of doing things in our community is that a parent can takehis child to account for what he spends on him from the day the childhas property, cash or goods, if the parent wants that."
USC-MSA web (English) reference: Book 37, Hadith 7
Arabic reference: Book 37, Hadith 1464