Al-Kafi 13598

Translation

Muhammad Bin yahya, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from Al Hassan Bin Mahboub, from Umar Bin Yazeed who said, ‘I asked Abu Abdullah^asws about a man who intended to emancipate a slave of his, and his master used to take tax from him obligated upon him during every year, and the master was happy with that and the slave was happy with that. So the slave attained wealth in his business equal to what he was giving to his master from the taxes. So he^asws said: ‘When he pays to his master what was obligated upon him, so whatever he earns after the obligation, so it is for the slave’. He (the narrator) said, ‘Then Abu Abdullah^asws said: ‘Is it not the case that Allah^azwj has Obligated certain Obligations upon the servant, so when he fulfils it, He^asws would not Ask him about what is besides it?’ So I said to him^asws, ‘So it is for the slave that he gives in charity from what he earns, and he emancipates after the obligation which was payable to his master?’ He^asws said: ‘Yes, and the Recompense of that is for him’. I said, ‘So if he emancipates a slave from what he had earned, besides the obligation, to whom would belong the guardianship of the emancipated one?’ He^asws said: ‘He should go and give the guardianship to the one whom he likes, who would take the responsibility of his crimes and wergild, he would be his guardian and his inheritor’. I said, ‘Is it not the case that Rasool-Allah^saww said: ‘The guardianship is for the one who emancipates?’ He^asws said: ‘This is a <span class="iTxt">Sa’iba</span> (an unconditionally freed slave), his guardianship cannot happen to be for a slave like him’. I said, ‘So if the slave who emancipate guarantees the responsibility of his crimes, and his liabilities, would that necessitate and he would become his master and inherit him?’ He^asws said: ‘That is not allowed, and a slave would not inherit a free one’.

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