دَخَلْتُ عَلَى أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) وَ مَعِي عَلِيُّ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْعَزِيزِ فَقَالَ لِي مَنْ هَذَا فَقُلْتُ مَوْلًى لَنَا فَقَالَ أَعْتَقْتُمُوهُ أَوْ أَبَاهُ فَقُلْتُ بَلْ أَبَاهُ فَقَالَ لَيْسَ هَذَا مَوْلَاكَ هَذَا أَخُوكَ وَ ابْنُ عَمِّكَ وَ إِنَّمَا الْمَوْلَى هُوَ الَّذِي جَرَتْ عَلَيْهِ النِّعْمَةُ فَإِذَا جَرَتْ عَلَى أَبِيهِ فَهُوَ أَخُوكَ وَ ابْنُ عَمِّكَ .
Translation
Al Husayn Bin Muhammad, from Ahmad Bin Is’haq, and Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, altogether, from Bakr Bin Muhammad Al Azdy who said, ‘I went over to Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup> and with me was Ali Bin Abdul Aziz. So he<sup>asws</sup> said to me: ‘Who is this?’ So I said, ‘A slave of ours’. So he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘Have you emancipated him, or his father?’ So I said, ‘But his father’. So he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘This one is not your slave. This is your brother, and a son of your uncle. But rather, the slave, he is the one upon whom the bounty flows. So when it flowed upon his father, so he is your brother, and a son of your uncle’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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