عَبْدٍ لِقَوْمٍ مَأْذُونٍ لَهُ فِي التِّجَارَةِ دَفَعَ إِلَيْهِ رَجُلٌ أَلْفَ دِرْهَمٍ فَقَالَ لَهُ اشْتَرِ مِنْهَا نَسَمَةً وَ أَعْتِقْهَا عَنِّي وَ حُجَّ عَنِّي بِالْبَاقِي ثُمَّ مَاتَ صَاحِبُ الْأَلْفِ دِرْهَمٍ فَانْطَلَقَ الْعَبْدُ فَاشْتَرَى أَبَاهُ فَأَعْتَقَهُ عَنِ الْمَيِّتِ وَ دَفَعَ إِلَيْهِ الْبَاقِيَ فِي الْحَجِّ عَنِ الْمَيِّتِ فَحَجَّ عَنْهُ فَبَلَغَ ذَلِكَ مَوَالِيَ أَبِيهِ وَ مَوَالِيَهُ وَ وَرَثَةَ الْمَيِّتِ فَاخْتَصَمُوا جَمِيعاً فِي الْأَلْفِ دِرْهَمٍ فَقَالَ مَوَالِي الْمُعْتَقِ إِنَّمَا اشْتَرَيْتَ أَبَاكَ بِمَالِنَا وَ قَالَ الْوَرَثَةُ اشْتَرَيْتَ أَبَاكَ بِمَالِنَا وَ قَالَ مَوَالِي الْعَبْدِ إِنَّمَا اشْتَرَيْتَ أَبَاكَ بِمَالِنَا فَقَالَ أَبُو جَعْفَرٍ ( عليه السلام ) أَمَّا الْحَجَّةُ فَقَدْ مَضَتْ بِمَا فِيهَا لَا تُرَدُّ وَ أَمَّا الْمُعْتَقُ فَهُوَ رَدٌّ فِي الرِّقِّ لِمَوَالِي أَبِيهِ وَ أَيُّ الْفَرِيقَيْنِ أَقَامَ الْبَيِّنَةَ أَنَّ الْعَبْدَ اشْتَرَى أَبَاهُ مِنْ أَمْوَالِهِمْ كَانَ لَهُمْ رِقّاً .
Translation
Muhammad Bin Yahy, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from Al Hassan Bin Mahboub, from Salih Bin Razeyn, from Ibn Aheym, (It has been narrated) from Abu Ja’far<sup>asws</sup> regarding a slave of a people, permitted for him with regards to the business, a man having handed over a thousand Dirhams to him. So he said to him (the slave), ‘Buy a person from it and emancipate (liberate) him on my behalf, and perform Hajj on my behalf with the remainder’. Then the owner of the thousand Dirhams died. So the slave went and bought his own father and emancipated him on behalf of the deceased, and handed over to him the remainder of the money regarding the Hajj on behalf of the deceased. So he performed Hajj on his behalf. So (news of) that reached the master of his father, and his own master, and the inheritors of the deceased. So they disputed altogether with regards to the one thousand Dirhams. So the master of the emancipated (father) said, ‘But rather, you bought your own father with our wealth’. And the inheritors said, ‘You bought your own father with our wealth’. And the masters of the slave (father) said, ‘But rather you bought your own father with our wealth’. So Abu Ja’far<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘As for the Hajj, so it has passed (done) with what was therein, it will not be returned, and as for the emancipated one (father), so it would be returned with regards to the rein (slavery) to the master of his father, and whichever group established the evidence that the slave bought his father from their wealth, his (father’s) slavery would be for them’.
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