سَمِعْتُ أَبَا عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) يَقُولُ كَانَ أَمِيرُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ( عليه السلام ) يَقُولُ إِنَّ النَّاسَ كُلَّهُمْ أَحْرَارٌ إِلَّا مَنْ أَقَرَّ عَلَى نَفْسِهِ بِالْعُبُودِيَّةِ وَ هُوَ مُدْرِكٌ مِنْ عَبْدٍ أَوْ أَمَةٍ وَ مَنْ شُهِدَ عَلَيْهِ بِالرِّقِّ صَغِيراً كَانَ أَوْ كَبِيراً .
Translation
Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Ibn Mahboub, from Abdullah Bin Sinan who said, ‘I heard Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup> saying: ‘Amir Al-Momineen<sup>asws</sup> was saying that the people, all of them are free, except for the one who confesses upon himself with the slavery, and he was an adult from a slave, or a slave girl; and the one against who is testified with the slavery, whether he was young or old’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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