Ayesha reported that she purchased Barirah from some people of the Ansar, and they stipulated that the right of inheritance from her freed-slave status would remain with them.The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "The right of wala belongs to the one who grants the favor of emancipation."The Messenger of Allah ﷺ gave her the choice regarding her marriage, and her husband at the time was a slave.Barirah once gave Ayesha some meat as a gift, and the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "If only you had prepared some of this meat for us."Ayesha replied, "It was given to Barirah as charity."He said, "It is charity for her, but a gift to us."
أنها اشترت بريرة من أناس من الأنصار، واشترطوا الولاء، فقال رسول الله ﷺ: الولاء لمن ولى النعمة. وخيرها رسول الله ﷺ، وكان زوجها عبدا، وأهدت لعائشة لحما، فقال رسول الله ﷺ: لو صنعتم لنا من هذا اللحم. قالت عائشة: تصدق به على بريرة، فقال: هو لها صدقة، ولنا هدية.
Muslim narrated it in the Book of Emancipation (1504:11) from Abu Bakr bin Abu Shayba, who said, Husayn bin Ali narrated to us, from Zaida, from Simak, from Abdul-Rahman bin Qasim, from his father, from Ayesha, and he mentioned it.Bukhari narrated it in the Book of Gifts (2578), and Muslim, both from the hadith of Shuba, from Abdul-Rahman bin Qasim, and in it, Abdul-Rahman said, "Her husband was free, or a slave." Shuba said, "I asked Abdul-Rahman about her husband, and he said, I do not know whether he was free or a slave." This is the wording of Bukhari, while the wording of Muslim is, he said, I do not know.The sahih view, which the narrations support, is that he was a slave, for had he been free the Messenger of Allah ﷺ would not have given her the choice. His name was "Mughith," as mentioned in the hadith of Ibn Abbas in Sahih Bukhari (5283).