قَالَ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) لِأَبِي حَنِيفَةَ يَا أَبَا حَنِيفَةَ مَا تَقُولُ فِي بَيْتٍ سَقَطَ عَلَى قَوْمٍ وَ بَقِيَ مِنْهُمْ صَبِيَّانِ أَحَدُهُمَا حُرٌّ وَ الْآخَرُ مَمْلُوكٌ لِصَاحِبِهِ فَلَمْ يُعْرَفِ الْحُرُّ مِنَ الْمَمْلُوكِ فَقَالَ أَبُو حَنِيفَةَ يُعْتَقُ نِصْفُ هَذَا وَ يُعْتَقُ نِصْفُ هَذَا وَ يُقْسَمُ الْمَالُ بَيْنَهُمَا فَقَالَ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) لَيْسَ كَذَلِكَ وَ لَكِنَّهُ يُقْرَعُ بَيْنَهُمَا فَمَنْ أَصَابَتْهُ الْقُرْعَةُ فَهُوَ حُرٌّ وَ يُعْتَقُ هَذَا فَيُجْعَلُ مَوْلًى لَهُ .
Translation
A number of our companions, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from Muhammad Bin Ismail, from Hammad Bin Isa, from Al Husayn Bin Al Mukhtar who said, ‘Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup> said to Abu Haneefa: ‘O Abu Haneefa! What are you saying regard a house which fell upon a group of people, and there remained two children from them, one of the free and the other one a slave of his companion, but the free is not recognised from the slave?’ So Abu Haneefa said, ‘Half of this should be liberated, and half of this, and the wealth be distributed between the two of them’. So he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘It is not like that, but a lot be drawn between the two of them, so the one who is hit by the lot, so he would be free, and this one be liberated, so he is made to be a master of his’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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