Narrated `Aisha: I bought Barira (a female slave). The Prophet said (to me), Buy her as the Wala' is for the manumitted. Once she was given a sheep (in charity). The Prophet said, It (the sheep) is a charitable gift for her (Barira) and a gift for us. Al-Hakam said, Barira's husband was a free man. Ibn `Abbas said, 'When I saw him, he was a slave.