Al-Kafi 11192

Translation

Ali, from his father, from Dawood Al Nahdy, from one of our companions who said, ‘Ibn Abu Saeed came over to Abu Al-Hassan Al-Reza^asws, so he said to him^asws, ‘May Allah^azwj Denounce your^asws abilities if you^asws were to claim what your^asws father^asws claimed’. So he^asws said to him: ‘What is the matter with you? May Allah^azwj Extinguish your light, and enter the poverty into your house. Do you not know that Allah^azwj Blessed and High Revealed unto Imran^sa that I^azwj shall Endow a male to you^sa, so He^azwj Endowed to him^sa Maryam^sa, and Endowed unto Maryam^sa, Isa^sa. Thus Isa^sa is from Maryam^sa, and Maryam^sa is from Isa^sa, and Maryam^sa & Isa^sa are one thing; and I^asws am from my^asws father^asws, and my^asws father^asws is from me^asws, and I^asws & my^asws father^asws are one thing’. فَقَالَ لَهُ ابْنُ أَبِي سَعِيدٍ وَ أَسْأَلُكَ عَنْ مَسْأَلَةٍ فَقَالَ لَا إِخَالُكَ تَقْبَلُ مِنِّي وَ لَسْتَ مِنْ غَنَمِي وَ لَكِنْ هَلُمَّهَا فَقَالَ رَجُلٌ قَالَ عِنْدَ مَوْتِهِ كُلُّ مَمْلُوكٍ لِي قَدِيمٍ فَهُوَ حُرٌّ لِوَجْهِ اللَّهِ قَالَ نَعَمْ إِنَّ اللَّهَ عَزَّ ذِكْرُهُ يَقُولُ فِي كِتَابِهِ حَتَّى عادَ كَالْعُرْجُونِ الْقَدِيمِ فَمَا كَانَ مِنْ مَمَالِيكِهِ أَتَى عَلَيْهِ سِتَّةُ أَشْهُرٍ فَهُوَ قَدِيمٌ وَ هُوَ حُرٌّ So Ibn Abu Saeed said to him^asws, ‘And I ask you^asws a question’. So he said, ‘I am not contravening you^asws. Accept from me, and there is none from my efforts but I bring it forward’. So he said: ‘A man said during his death, ‘Every owned slave of mine from old, so he is free for the Face of Allah^azwj’. He^asws said: ‘Yes. Allah^azwj Mighty is His^azwj Mention is saying in His^azwj Book <span class="ibTxt"><a href="/#/books/quran:36#h39"><a href="/books/quran:36#h39">[36:39]</a></a> till it becomes again as an old dry palm branch</span>. Thus whatever was from his owned slave, whom six months have come upon, so he is from old, and he is free’. He (the narrator) said, ‘So he went out from his^asws presence, and contemplated until he died, and there did not happen to be an overnight stay. May Allah^azwj Curse him’.

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