سَأَلْتُ أَبَا الْحَسَنِ مُوسَى ( عليه السلام ) عَنْ رَجُلٍ بَيْنِي وَ بَيْنَهُ قَرَابَةٌ مَاتَ وَ تَرَكَ أَوْلَاداً صِغَاراً وَ تَرَكَ مَمَالِيكَ غِلْمَاناً وَ جَوَارِيَ 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 وَ كَانَ مَأْجُوراً فِيهِمْ قُلْتُ فَمَا تَرَى فِيمَنْ يَشْتَرِي مِنْهُمُ الْجَارِيَةَ فَيَتَّخِذُهَا أُمَّ وَلَدٍ قَالَ لَا بَأْسَ بِذَلِكَ إِذَا بَاعَ عَلَيْهِمُ الْقَيِّمُ لَهُمُ النَّاظِرُ لَهُمْ فِيمَا يُصْلِحُهُمْ فَلَيْسَ لَهُمْ أَنْ يَرْجِعُوا فِيمَا صَنَعَ الْقَيِّمُ لَهُمُ النَّاظِرُ [لَهُمْ] فِيمَا يُصْلِحُهُمْ .
Translation
A number of our companion, from Sahl Bin Ziyad, from Ibn Mahboub, from Ibn Ra’ib who said, ‘I asked Abu Al-Hassan Musa<sup>asws</sup> about a man who was a close relative, died and left young children, and left owned slave boys and girls, and he had not bequeathed. So what is your<sup>asws</sup> view regarding the one who buys the slave girls from them. Can he take her as a mother for (his) children, and what is your<sup>asws</sup> view regarding selling them?’ He (the narrator) said, ‘So he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘If there was a guardian for them who would stand with their affairs, selling upon them, and looking out for them, and he would be Recompensed with regards to them’. I said, ‘So what is your view regarding the one who buys the slave girl from them, so he takes her as a mother of a child (of his)’. He<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘There is no problem with that. When the custodian sells upon them being considerate for them regarding what is correct for them, so it is not for them that they should retract regarding what the custodian has done for them, having been considerate for them regarding what is correct for them’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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