سَأَلْتُ أَبَا الْحَسَنِ ( عليه السلام ) عَنْ رَجُلٍ بَيْنِي وَ بَيْنَهُ قَرَابَةٌ مَاتَ وَ تَرَكَ أَوْلَاداً صِغَاراً وَ تَرَكَ مَمَالِيكَ لَهُ غِلْمَانٌ وَ جَوَارِي وَ لَمْ يُوصِ فَمَا تَرَى فِيمَنْ يَشْتَرِي مِنْهُمُ الْجَارِيَةَ يَتَّخِذُهَا أُمَّ وَلَدٍ وَ مَا تَرَى فِي بَيْعِهِمْ قَالَ فَقَالَ إِنْ كَانَ لَهُمْ وَلِيٌّ يَقُومُ بِأَمْرِهِمْ بَاعَ عَلَيْهِمْ وَ نَظَرَ لَهُمْ كَانَ مَأْجُوراً فِيهِمْ قُلْتُ فَمَا تَرَى فِيمَنْ يَشْتَرِي مِنْهُمُ الْجَارِيَةَ فَيَتَّخِذُهَا أُمَّ وَلَدٍ قَالَ لَا بَأْسَ بِذَلِكَ إِذَا أَنْفَذَ ذَلِكَ الْقَيِّمُ لَهُمُ النَّاظِرُ فِيمَا يُصْلِحُهُمْ وَ لَيْسَ لَهُمْ أَنْ يَرْجِعُوا فِيمَا صَنَعَ الْقَيِّمُ لَهُمُ النَّاظِرُ فِيمَا يُصْلِحُهُمْ .
Translation
A number of our companions, from Sahl Bin Ziyad, from Ibn Mahboub, from Ibn Raib who said, ‘I asked Abu Al-Hassan<sup>asws</sup> about a man, between me and him was a relationship, died and left young children, and left slaves for him, boys and girls, and did not make a bequest. So what is your<sup>asws</sup> view regarding the one who buys the slave girl from them to serve the mother of his children, and what is your<sup>asws</sup> view with regards to selling them?’ He (the narrator) said, ‘So he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘If there is a guardian for them, they would be evaluated by his order to be sold over them, and with having consideration for them if there were ones who were paid among them’. I said, ‘So what is your<sup>asws</sup> view regarding the one who buys the slave girl from them, so he takes her for the mother of his child?’ He<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘There is no problem with that, if that evaluation is established for them by the supervisor with regards to what is correct for them (young inheritors), and there is not for them to retract with regards to what evaluation the supervisors establishes for them with regards to what is right for them’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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