"The greatest sin is to associate partners with Allah, and to kill a soul which Allah has forbidden, and to commit adultery, and to consume the property of an orphan."

"No servant should be called a 'slave,' for all of you are the slaves of Allah. Rather, you should refer to him as 'my young man.' The servant should not refer to anyone as 'my lord,' but rather he sho…"

"You would have got more reward if you had given her (i.e. the slave-girl) to one of your maternal uncles."

"The best kind of manumission (of slaves) is the manumission of the most expensive slave and the most beloved by his master."

"He who is deprived of kindness is deprived of good."