قُلْتُ لِأَبِي جَعْفَرٍ ( عليه السلام ) الرَّجُلُ يَشْتَرِي الْجَارِيَةَ مِنَ السُّوقِ فَيُولِدُهَا ثُمَّ يَجِيءُ رَجُلٌ فَيُقِيمُ الْبَيِّنَةَ عَلَى أَنَّهَا جَارِيَتُهُ لَمْ تُبَعْ وَ لَمْ تُوهَبْ قَالَ فَقَالَ لِي يَرُدُّ إِلَيْهِ جَارِيَتَهُ وَ يُعَوِّضُهُ مِمَّا انْتَفَعَ قَالَ كَأَنَّهُ مَعْنَاهُ قِيمَةُ الْوَلَدِ .
Translation
A number of our companions, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad Bin Isa, from Abu Abdullah Al Farra, from Hareyz, from Zurara who said, ‘I said to Abu Ja’far<sup>asws</sup>, ‘The man buys the slave girl from the market, so she gave birth, then a man comes over so he establishes the proof that she is his slave girl, neither having been sold, nor gifted’. So he<sup>asws</sup> said to me: ‘His slave girl would be returned to him, and compensate from what he had benefited’. He (the narrator) said, ‘It is as if is meaning is the value of the child’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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