إِنَّ رَجُلًا مِنَ الْأَنْصَارِ أَتَى أَبِي ( عليه السلام ) فَقَالَ إِنِّي ابْتُلِيتُ بِأَمْرٍ عَظِيمٍ إِنَّ لِي جَارِيَةً كُنْتُ أَطَأُهَا فَوَطِئْتُهَا يَوْماً وَ خَرَجْتُ فِي حَاجَةٍ لِي بَعْدَ مَا اغْتَسَلْتُ مِنْهَا وَ نَسِيتُ نَفَقَةً لِي فَرَجَعْتُ إِلَى الْمَنْزِلِ لآِخُذَهَا فَوَجَدْتُ غُلَامِي عَلَى بَطْنِهَا فَعَدَدْتُ لَهَا مِنْ يَوْمِي ذَلِكَ تِسْعَةَ أَشْهُرٍ فَوَلَدَتْ جَارِيَةً قَالَ فَقَالَ لَهُ أَبِي ( عليه السلام ) لَا يَنْبَغِي لَكَ أَنْ تَقْرَبَهَا وَ لَا أَنْ تَبِيعَهَا وَ لَكِنْ أَنْفِقْ عَلَيْهَا مِنْ مَالِكَ مَا دُمْتَ حَيّاً ثُمَّ أَوْصِ عِنْدَ مَوْتِكَ أَنْ يُنْفَقَ عَلَيْهَا مِنْ مَالِكَ حَتَّى يَجْعَلَ اللَّهُ لَهَا مَخْرَجاً .
Translation
Muhammad Bin Yahya, form Ahmad Bin Muhammad, and Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, altogether from Ibn Mahboub, from Abdullah Bin Sinan, (It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup> having said: ‘A man from the Helpers came over to my<sup>asws</sup> father<sup>asws</sup>, so he said, ‘I am afflicted with a grievous matter. There is a slave girl for me which I had slept with. So, one day I slept with her, and went out regarding a need of mine, after having washed from it, and I forgot my expenses. So returned to the house in order to take it, and I found my slave upon her belly. So I counted for her nine months from that day of mine, and the slave girl gave birth’. He<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘So my<sup>asws</sup> father<sup>asws</sup> said to me: ‘It is not befitting for you that you go near her, nor that you should sell her, but spend upon her from your wealth for as long as she is alive. Then bequeath at your death that he (your successor) should spend upon her from your wealth until Allah<sup>azwj</sup> Makes a way out for her’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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