Al-Kafi 11151

Translation

Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, and Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, altogether from Ibn Mahboub, from Muawiya Bin Wahab, (It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah^asws, said, ‘I said to him^asws, ‘I contracted a slave girl for our orphans, and I stipulated upon her that if she is frustrated (from paying off), she would be returned into the slavery, and I would be in freedom from whatever I take from her’. So he^asws said to me: ‘For you is your condition, and you would be told that Ali^asws was saying: ‘She would be emancipated from the contract by the measurement of whatever she has paid off from her contract’. So say, ‘But rather, that was from the words of Ali^asws, before the stipulation of the condition. So when the people stipulate, for them would be their conditions’. So I said to him^asws, ‘And what is the limit of the frustration (from paying off)?’ So he^asws said: ‘Our judges are saying that the frustrated contracted slave, would be respire from and installment to the installment, and until a year passes by upon him’. I said, ‘So what is that which you^asws are saying?’ He^asws said: ‘No, and there is no honour. It is not for him that he is respited for an installment from his term when that was stipulated in his conditions’.

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