Mu'awiya b. al-Hakam told that he went to Allah's Messenger ﷺ and said, “ Messenger of Allah , I have a slave girl who was herding sheep of mine. I went to her, having missed a sheep from the flock, and asked her about it, and she told me it had been eaten by a wolf. I was annoyed with her, and being human, I struck her on the face. As it is my duty to set free a slave, should I set her free?” Allah's Messenger ﷺ asked her where Allah was and she replied that he was in heaven. He asked her who he was and she replied that he was Allah's Messenger ﷺ. He then told him to set her free. Malik transmitted it. In Muslim’s version he said, “I had a slave girl who was herding sheep of mine in the direction of Uhud and al-Jawwaniya. One day I looked and saw that a wolf had gone off with one of our sheep. Now I am a man who becomes annoyed just as others do, but I gave her a blow and then went to Allah's Messenger ﷺ. He treated my offence as serious, and so I asked him whether I should set her free. He told me to bring her and when I did so he asked her where Allah was and she replied that He was in heaven. He asked her who he was and she replied that he was Allah's Messenger ﷺ. He then told me to set her free, for she was a believer.”* *This chapter has only one section.