Sandar, freedman of Zinba' al-Judhami

Ibn Abd al-Hakam reports from Ibn Lahi'a, from Amr ibn Shu'ayb, from his father, from his grandfather, that Zinba' al-Judhami had a slave called Sandar whom he found kissing a slave girl of his, and he castrated him and cut off his ears and nose. Sandar went to the Prophet, who sent for Zinba', enjoined good treatment of slaves, and declared that whoever is mutilated or burned is free and is the client of God and His Messenger. Sandar was freed and asked the Prophet to commend him to someone; he said, "I commend you to every Muslim." ^{1 2}

Sandar went to Abu Bakr, who supported him until his death, then to Umar, who offered him either the same allowance at Medina or a place of his choosing to be written to; he chose Egypt, "for it is a land of fields". Umar wrote to Amr ibn al-As commending him, and Amr granted him extensive land and a house. ²

He reports from al-Layth that Umar granted Ibn Sandar Munyat al-Asbagh, of which he took a thousand faddans for himself, and that al-Layth knew of no one else to whom Umar granted Egyptian land. It remained his until his death, when al-Asbagh ibn Abd al-Aziz bought it from his heirs: "there is no older or better estate in Egypt." ¹ In Amr ibn Shu'ayb's report it passed after his death to the public treasury, and Abd al-Aziz ibn Marwan later granted it to al-Asbagh. ² Ibn Abd al-Hakam wavers between the names Sandar and Ibn Sandar. ³