رَجُلٍ أَوْصَى عِنْدَ مَوْتِهِ أَعْتِقْ فُلَاناً وَ فُلَاناً وَ فُلَاناً وَ فُلَاناً وَ فُلَاناً فَنَظَرْتُ فِي ثُلُثِهِ فَلَمْ يَبْلُغْ أَثْمَانَ قِيمَةِ الْمَمَالِيكِ الْخَمْسَةِ الَّتِي أَمَرَ بِعِتْقِهِمْ قَالَ يُنْظَرُ إِلَى الَّذِينَ سَمَّاهُمْ وَ يُبْدَأُ بِعِتْقِهِمْ فَيُقَوَّمُونَ وَ يُنْظَرُ إِلَى ثُلُثِهِ فَيُعْتَقُ مِنْهُ أَوَّلُ شَيْءٍ ثُمَّ الثَّانِي ثُمَّ الثَّالِثُ ثُمَّ الرَّابِعُ ثُمَّ الْخَامِسُ فَإِنْ عَجَزَ الثُّلُثُ كَانَ فِي الَّذِي سَمَّى أَخِيراً لِأَنَّهُ أَعْتَقَ بَعْدَ مَبْلَغِ الثُّلُثِ مَا لَا يَمْلِكُ فَلَا يَجُوزُ لَهُ ذَلِكَ .
Translation
A number of our companions, from Sahl Bin Ziyad and Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, both together from Ibn Mahboub, from Abu Jameela, from Humran, (It has been narrated) from Abu Ja’far<sup>asws</sup> regarding a man who bequeathed during his death to free so and so, and so and so, and so and so, and so and so, and so and so. So I looked into his third, but it’s value did not reach the price of the five slaves which he had ordered to be emancipated’. Look at that which he had named (the five slaves), and begin by emancipating them. So stand them and look at his third, so emancipate from it, the first one, then the second, then the third, then the fourth, then the fifth. So if the third is insufficient with regards to what had been named, stop, for emancipating after reaching the third is what is not for the slaves, so that is not allowable for him’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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