Mishkat al-Masabih #3529
The Offices of Commander and Qadi
‘Abdallah b. ‘Umar reported God’s Messenger as saying, “Each of you is a shepherd and each of you is responsible for his flock. The imam who is over the people is a shepherd and is responsible for his flock; a man is a shepherd in charge of the inhabitants of his household and he is responsible for his flock; a woman is a shepherdess in charge of her husband’s house and children and she is responsible for them; and a man’s slave is a shepherd in charge of his master’s property and he is responsible for it. So each of you is a shepherd and each of you is responsible for his flock.”
(Bukhari and Muslim.)
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This hadith is #3529 from Mishkat al-Masabih, in the Book of The Offices of Commander and Qadi. Mishkat al-Masabih contains 4,428 hadiths across 25 books.