The Cost of Slavery

Ibn Masoor-Nah said, Bilal considered his soul not worth anything in front of Allah. He was willing to give up his soul. And so they concentrated their efforts on him. Umayyya ibn Khalaf would personally take Bilal into the desert in the morning and put a large rock. The other slaves would put a rock on his chest and leave him there without food, without water trapped and pinned under the rock. It's counter-intuitive to beat your own slave because you want him to live a long life,. So this shows us how much hatred they have. They are destroying their most precious property.