سَأَلْتُ أَبَا جَعْفَرٍ ( عليه السلام ) عَنْ رَجُلٍ أَعْتَقَ نِصْفَ جَارِيَتِهِ ثُمَّ إِنَّهُ كَاتَبَهَا عَلَى النِّصْفِ الْآخَرِ بَعْدَ ذَلِكَ قَالَ فَقَالَ فَلْيَشْتَرِطْ عَلَيْهَا أَنَّهَا إِنْ عَجَزَتْ عَنْ نُجُومِهَا فَإِنَّهَا تُرَدُّ فِي الرِّقِّ فِي نِصْفِ رَقَبَتِهَا قَالَ فَإِنْ شَاءَ كَانَ لَهُ فِي الْخِدْمَةِ يَوْمٌ وَ لَهَا يَوْمٌ وَ إِنْ لَمْ يُكَاتِبْهَا قُلْتُ فَلَهَا أَنْ تَتَزَوَّجَ فِي تِلْكَ الْحَالِ قَالَ لَا حَتَّى تُؤَدِّيَ جَمِيعَ مَا عَلَيْهَا فِي نِصْفِ رَقَبَتِهَا .
Translation
And by his chain, from Ibn Mahboub, from Malik Bin Atiyya, from Abu Baseer who said, ‘I asked Abu Ja’far<sup>asws</sup> about a man who emancipated half of his slave girl, then he contracted her upon the other half after that. So he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘So let him stipulated upon her that if she was frustrated from her installments, so she would be returned into the slavery with regards to half of her slavery. So if he so desires to, there would be for him, her services for a day, and for her would be a day, if he has not contracted her’. I said, ‘Is it for her that she gets married, being in that state?’ He<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘No, until she has paid off the entirety of what is upon her with regards to half of her slavery’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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