Mishkat al-Masabih #3230
Marriage
He said he separated a slave girl from her child, but when the Prophet forbade him to do that he cancelled the transaction.
Abu Dawud transmitted it with a break in the isnad.
About Mishkat al-Masabih
This hadith is #3230 from Mishkat al-Masabih, in the Book of Marriage. Mishkat al-Masabih contains 4,428 hadiths across 25 books.