Al-Kafi 8933

Translation

A number of our companions, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from Muhammad Bin Sahl, from Zakariyya Bin Adam who said, ‘I asked Al-Reza^asws about a people from the enemies who reconcile (sign a peace treaty), then they breach it, and perhaps they breach it because justice had not been done upon them. Is it correct to buy from their captives?’ So he^asws said: ‘If it was from the enemies who had manifested their enmity, so buy from them (their captives), and if it was a number who were alienated and had been unjust, so do not buy from their captives’. He (the narrator) said, ‘And I asked him^asws about a captive of Al Daylam who had stolen from each other and the Muslims had attacked them without an Imam^asws, is buying them Permissible?’ He^asws said: ‘When they had been endorsed with the slavery so there is no problem with buying them’. He (the narrator) said, ‘And I asked him^asws about a people from the ones under the responsibility (<span class="iTxt">Ahl Al-Zimma</span>) who have been hit by hunger (famine), so a man comes over with his son, so he says, ‘This is for you, so feed him, and he would be a slave for you’. So he^asws said: ‘You cannot sell the free, for it is not correct for you, nor from the people under the responsibility (<span class="iTxt">Ahl Al-Zimma</span>)’.

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