قُلْتُ لِأَبِي الْحَسَنِ ( عليه السلام ) إِنَّ الرُّومَ يُغِيرُونَ عَلَى الصَّقَالِبَةِ فَيَسْرِقُونَ أَوْلَادَهُمْ مِنَ الْجَوَارِي وَ الْغِلْمَانِ فَيَعْمِدُونَ إِلَى الْغِلْمَانِ فَيَخْصُونَهُمْ ثُمَّ يَبْعَثُونَ بِهِمْ إِلَى بَغْدَادَ إِلَى التُّجَّارِ فَمَا تَرَى فِي شِرَائِهِمْ وَ نَحْنُ نَعْلَمُ أَنَّهُمْ قَدْ سُرِقُوا وَ إِنَّمَا أَغَارُوا عَلَيْهِمْ مِنْ غَيْرِ حَرْبٍ كَانَتْ بَيْنَهُمْ فَقَالَ لَا بَأْسَ بِشِرَائِهِمْ إِنَّمَا أَخْرَجُوهُمْ مِنَ الشِّرْكِ إِلَى دَارِ الْإِسْلَامِ .
Translation
A number of our companions, from Sahl Bin Ziyad, and Ahmad Bin Muhammad, altogether from Ibn Mahboub, from Rafa’at Al Nakhhas who said, ‘I said to Abu Al-Hassan<sup>asws</sup>, ‘The Romans are invading upon Al-Saqaliba (between Turkey and Bulgaria). So they are stealing their children, from the slave-girls and the slave-boys. So they are deliberating to the boys and castrating them, then they are sending them to Baghdad to the merchants. So what is your<sup>asws</sup> view regarding buying them, and we know that they have been stolen, but rather they were invaded upon from other than a war which was between them’. So he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘It not unlawful to buy them as they are taken out of the Polytheism and (brought) into the house of Al-Islam’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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