سَأَلْتُ أَبَا عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) عَنِ الرَّجُلِ إِذَا أُعْتِقَ أَ لَهُ أَنْ يَضَعَ نَفْسَهُ حَيْثُ شَاءَ وَ يَتَوَلَّى مَنْ أَحَبَّ فَقَالَ إِذَا أُعْتِقَ لِلَّهِ فَهُوَ مَوْلًى لِلَّذِي أَعْتَقَهُ فَإِذَا أُعْتِقَ وَ جُعِلَ سَائِبَةً فَلَهُ أَنْ يَضَعَ نَفْسَهُ حَيْثُ شَاءَ وَ يَتَوَلَّى مَنْ شَاءَ .
Translation
Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Abdullah Bin Muhammad, from Ali Bin Al Hakam,f rom Aban, from Ismail Bin Al Fazal who said, ‘I asked Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup> about the man when is emancipated, is it for him that he places himself wherever he so desires to, and makes a guardian to the one whom he loves to?’ So he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘When he is emancipated for the Sake of Allah<sup>azwj</sup>, so he is a slave of the one who emancipated him. So when he is emancipated and is made a freed slave, so for him is that he places himself wherever he so desires to and makes a guardian the one who he so desires to’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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