قُلْتُ لِأَبِي الْحَسَنِ مُوسَى ( عليه السلام ) إِنِّي كُنْتُ اشْتَرَيْتُ جَارِيَةً سِرّاً مِنِ امْرَأَتِي وَ إِنَّهُ بَلَغَهَا ذَلِكَ فَخَرَجَتْ مِنْ مَنْزِلِي وَ أَبَتْ أَنْ تَرْجِعَ إِلَى مَنْزِلِي فَأَتَيْتُهَا فِي مَنْزِلِ أَهْلِهَا فَقُلْتُ لَهَا إِنَّ الَّذِي بَلَغَكِ بَاطِلٌ وَ إِنَّ الَّذِي أَتَاكِ بِهَذَا عَدُوٌّ لَكِ أَرَادَ أَنْ يَسْتَفِزَّكِ فَقَالَتْ لَا وَ اللَّهِ لَا يَكُونُ بَيْنِي وَ بَيْنَكَ خَيْرٌ أَبَداً حَتَّى تَحْلِفَ لِي بِعِتْقِ كُلِّ جَارِيَةٍ لَكَ وَ بِصَدَقَةِ مَالِكَ إِنْ كُنْتَ اشْتَرَيْتَ جَارِيَةً وَ هِيَ فِي مِلْكِكَ الْيَوْمَ فَحَلَفْتُ لَهَا بِذَلِكَ وَ أَعَادَتِ الْيَمِينَ وَ قَالَتْ لِي فَقُلْ كُلُّ جَارِيَةٍ لِيَ السَّاعَةَ فَهِيَ حُرَّةٌ فَقُلْتُ لَهَا كُلُّ جَارِيَةٍ لِيَ السَّاعَةَ فَهِيَ حُرَّةٌ وَ قَدِ اعْتَزَلْتُ جَارِيَتِي وَ هَمَمْتُ أَنْ أُعْتِقَهَا وَ أَتَزَوَّجَهَا لِهَوَايَ فِيهَا فَقَالَ لَيْسَ عَلَيْكَ فِيمَا أَحْلَفَتْكَ عَلَيْهِ شَيْءٌ وَ اعْلَمْ أَنَّهُ لَا يَجُوزُ عِتْقٌ وَ لَا صَدَقَةٌ إِلَّا مَا أُرِيدَ بِهِ وَجْهُ اللَّهِ وَ ثَوَابُهُ .
Translation
Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from Ibn Mahboub, from Sa’ad Bin Abu Khalaf who said, ‘I said to Abu Al-Hassan Musa<sup>asws</sup>, ‘I had bought a slave girl secretly from my wife, and that reached her. So he went out from my house and refuses to come back to my house. So I went to her in the house of her family, so I said to her, ‘That which has reached you is false, and those who came to you with this are your enemies intending to cause separation for you’. So she said, ‘By Allah<sup>azwj</sup>! There is never going to be goodness between me and you, ever until you swear an oath with the freeing of every slave girl of your, and with the giving of your wealth in charity, if you have bought a slave girl and she in your possession today’. So I swore an oath for her with that, and made me repeat the oath and said to me, ‘So say, ‘Every slave girl of mine at the moment, so she is hereby free’. So I said if to her, ‘Every slave girl of mine at the moment, so she is hereby free’. So I relinquished my slave girl and had thought that I would free her and marry her for my desire with regards to her’. So he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘There is nothing upon you with regards to what you have sworn upon, and know that it is not allowed, neither the freeing of a slave nor charity until what is intended by it is the Face of Allah<sup>azwj</sup> and His<sup>azwj</sup> Reward’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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