سُئِلَ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) عَنْ رَجُلٍ كَانَ فِي سَفَرٍ وَ مَعَهُ جَارِيَةٌ لَهُ وَ غُلَامَانِ مَمْلُوكَانِ فَقَالَ لَهُمَا أَنْتُمَا حُرَّانِ لِوَجْهِ اللَّهِ وَ اشْهَدَا أَنَّ مَا فِي بَطْنِ جَارِيَتِي هَذِهِ مِنِّي فَوَلَدَتْ غُلَاماً فَلَمَّا قَدِمُوا عَلَى الْوَرَثَةِ أَنْكَرُوا ذَلِكَ وَ اسْتَرَقُّوهُمْ ثُمَّ إِنَّ الْغُلَامَيْنِ أُعْتِقَا بَعْدَ ذَلِكَ فَشَهِدَا بَعْدَ مَا أُعْتِقَا أَنَّ مَوْلَاهُمَا الْأَوَّلَ أَشْهَدَهُمَا أَنَّ مَا فِي بَطْنِ جَارِيَتِهِ مِنْهُ قَالَ يَجُوزُ شَهَادَتُهُمَا لِلْغُلَامِ وَ لَا يَسْتَرِقُّهُمَا الْغُلَامُ الَّذِي شَهِدَا لَهُ لِأَنَّهُمَا أَثْبَتَا نَسَبَهُ.
Translation
Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from Ibn Fazal, from Dawood Bin Abu Yazeed who said, ‘Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup> was asked about a man who was in a journey and with him was a slave girl of his, and two slave boys. So he said to them both, ‘You are both free for the Sake of Allah<sup>azwj</sup>, and I testify that whatever is in the belly of this slave girl of mine, is from me. So she gave birth to a boy. So when they proceeded to the inheritor, he denied that and enslaved them. Then the two slaves were emancipated after that, so they testified after having been emancipated that their master had at first testified that whatever was in the belly of his slave girl was from him’. He<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘Both their testimonies is allowed, and the boy whom they had testified for cannot enslave the two of them, because they had both affirmed his lineage’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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