سَأَلْتُهُ عَنْ رَجُلٍ اشْتَرَى مِنْ رَجُلٍ عَبْداً وَ كَانَ عِنْدَهُ عَبْدَانِ فَقَالَ لِلْمُشْتَرِي اذْهَبْ بِهِمَا فَاخْتَرْ أَيَّهُمَا شِئْتَ وَ رُدَّ الْآخَرَ وَ قَدْ قَبَضَ الْمَالَ فَذَهَبَ بِهِمَا الْمُشْتَرِي فَأَبَقَ أَحَدُهُمَا مِنْ عِنْدِهِ قَالَ لِيَرُدَّ الَّذِي عِنْدَهُ مِنْهُمَا وَ يَقْبِضُ نِصْفَ الثَّمَنِ مِمَّا أَعْطَى مِنَ الْبَيِّعِ وَ يَذْهَبُ فِي طَلَبِ الْغُلَامِ فَإِنْ وَجَدَ اخْتَارَ أَيَّهُمَا شَاءَ وَ رَدَّ النِّصْفَ الَّذِي أَخَذَ وَ إِنْ لَمْ يُوجَدْ كَانَ الْعَبْدُ بَيْنَهُمَا نِصْفُهُ لِلْبَائِعِ وَ نِصْفُهُ لِلْمُبْتَاعِ.
Translation
Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Ibn Abu Habeeb, from Muhammad Bin Muslim, (It has been narrated) from Abu Ja’far<sup>asws</sup>, said, ‘I asked him<sup>asws</sup> about a man who bought a slave from a man, and with him were two slaves. So he said to the buyer, ‘Go with them both and choose whichever you so desire to, and return the other’, and he had taken the money. So the buyer went with both of them, and one of them absconded from his presence. He<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘Let him return the one who is still with him and take back half the money from what he had given from the transaction, and he should go in seeking the slave. So if he were to find him, he can choose whichever of the two he so desires to and return the half money which he had taken; and if he does not find him, the slave would be between the two of them, half for the seller and half for the buyer’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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