قَالَ أَمِيرُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ( عليه السلام ) أَيُّمَا رَجُلٍ تَرَكَ سُرِّيَّةً لَهَا وَلَدٌ أَوْ فِي بَطْنِهَا وَلَدٌ أَوْ لَا وَلَدَ لَهَا فَإِنْ أَعْتَقَهَا رَبُّهَا عَتَقَتْ وَ إِنْ لَمْ يُعْتِقْهَا حَتَّى تُوُفِّيَ فَقَدْ سَبَقَ فِيهَا كِتَابُ اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ وَ كِتَابُ اللَّهِ أَحَقُّ فَإِنْ كَانَ لَهَا وَلَدٌ فَتَرَكَ مَالًا جُعِلَتْ فِي نَصِيبِ وَلَدِهَا قَالَ وَ قَضَى أَمِيرُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ( عليه السلام ) فِي رَجُلٍ تَرَكَ جَارِيَةً وَ قَدْ وَلَدَتْ مِنْهُ ابْنَةً وَ هِيَ صَغِيرَةٌ غَيْرَ أَنَّهَا تُبِينُ الْكَلَامَ فَأَعْتَقَتْ أُمَّهَا فَخَاصَمَ فِيهَا مَوَالِي أَبِي الْجَارِيَةِ فَأَجَازَ عِتْقَهَا لِلْأُمِّ .
Translation
Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Abdul Rahman Bin Abu Najran, from Aasim Bin Humeyr, from Muhammad Bin Qays, (It has been narrated) from Abu Ja’far<sup>asws</sup> having said: ‘Amir Al-Momineen<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘Whichever man leaves a concubine having a child for her or a child in her belly, or not having a child for her, so if her lord were to emancipate her, so she is emancipated, and if he does not emancipate her until she dies (so be it), for there has preceded with regards to it a Book of Allah<sup>azwj</sup> Mighty and Majestic, and the Book of Allah<sup>azwj</sup> is more rightful. So if there was a child for her, and she has left wealth, so it would be made to be in the share of her child’. And Amir Al-Momineen<sup>asws</sup> has judged regarding a man who left a slave girl and she had given birth to a daughter from him, and she was small without being able to manifest the speech. So her mother was emancipated. So the guardians of the father of the slave girl disputed with regards to her, so he<sup>asws</sup> allowed her emancipation for the mother’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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