كَتَبْتُ إِلَيْهِ أَسْأَلُهُ عَنِ الْمَمْلُوكِ يَحْضُرُهُ الْمَوْتُ فَيُعْتِقُهُ الْمَوْلَى فِي تِلْكَ السَّاعَةِ فَيَخْرُجُ مِنَ الدُّنْيَا حُرّاً فَهَلْ لِمَوْلَاهُ فِي ذَلِكَ أَجْرٌ أَوْ يَتْرُكُهُ فَيَكُونُ لَهُ أَجْرُهُ إِذَا مَاتَ وَ هُوَ مَمْلُوكٌ فَكَتَبَ إِلَيْهِ يَتْرُكُ الْعَبْدَ مَمْلُوكاً فِي حَالِ مَوْتِهِ فَهُوَ أَجْرٌ لِمَوْلَاهُ وَ هَذَا عِتْقٌ فِي هَذِهِ السَّاعَةِ لَيْسَ بِنَافِعٍ لَهُ .
Translation
Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, (It has been narrated) from Ali Bin Mahziyar who wrote to him<sup>asws</sup> asking him<sup>asws</sup> about the owned slave to whom death presented itself. So the master emancipates him during that moment. So he exited from the world a free man. So, is it for his master with regards to that, a recompense, or he leaves him so there would happen to be a recompense for him when he dies and he is an owned slave?’ So he<sup>asws</sup> wrote to him: ‘He should leave the slave as owned during the state of his death, so it is a recompense for his master, and this emancipation during these times, is not beneficial for him’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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