قُلْتُ لِأَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) رَجُلٌ وَجَدَ مَالًا فَعَرَّفَهُ حَتَّى إِذَا مَضَتِ السَّنَةُ اشْتَرَى بِهِ خَادِماً فَجَاءَ طَالِبُ الْمَالِ فَوَجَدَ الْجَارِيَةَ الَّتِي اشْتُرِيَتْ بِالدَّرَاهِمِ هِيَ ابْنَتَهُ قَالَ لَيْسَ لَهُ أَنْ يَأْخُذَ إِلَّا دَرَاهِمَهُ وَ لَيْسَ لَهُ الِابْنَةُ إِنَّمَا لَهُ رَأْسُ مَالِهِ وَ إِنَّمَا كَانَتِ ابْنَتُهُ مَمْلُوكَةَ قَوْمٍ .
Translation
Ali Bin Ibrahim, form his father, from one of our companions, from Abu Al A’ala who said, ‘I said to Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup>, ‘A man found some wealth, so he introduced it (to others) until when the year passed by, he bought a servant with it. So the seeker of the wealth came over and found that the maid which had been bought with the Dirhams, she was his daughter’. He<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘It is not for him to take except for the Dirhams, and the daughter is not for him. But rather, for him is the capital of his wealth, and rather his daughter would be an owned slave of a people’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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