Al-Kafi 11185

Translation

Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from Al Husayn Bin Saeed, from Ibrahim Bin Abu Al Balaad, from Umar Bin Yazeed who said, ‘I said to Abu Abdullah^asws’, or said, ‘Abu Ibrahim^asws (7^th Imam^asws), ‘I would like to ask you^asws’. So he^asws said: ‘Ask’. So I said, ‘Why did Amir Al-Momineen^asws sell the mother of the children?’ He^asws said: ‘Regarding their escape from slavery’. I said, ‘And how was that?’ So he^asws said: ‘Whichever man buys a slave girl, so she begets, then her price is not paid, and he does not leave from the wealth what is to be paid off from her, her child would be taken from her, and it would be sold, so her price would be paid’. I said, ‘Can he sell regarding what is beside that from the matter of the debts and its aspects?’ He^asws said; ‘No’.

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