الْمَنْبُوذُ حُرٌّ فَإِنْ أَحَبَّ أَنْ يُوَالِيَ غَيْرَ الَّذِي رَبَّاهُ وَالَاهُ فَإِنْ طَلَبَ مِنْهُ الَّذِي رَبَّاهُ النَّفَقَةَ وَ كَانَ مُوسِراً رَدَّ عَلَيْهِ وَ إِنْ كَانَ مُعْسِراً كَانَ مَا أَنْفَقَ عَلَيْهِ صَدَقَةً .
Translation
Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from Ibn Fazzal, from Musna, from Hatim Bin Ismail Al Madainy, (It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup> having said: ‘The abandoned (child) is free, so if he so likes that he chooses a guardian other than the one who nourished him, he can do so, and if the one who nourished him (the finder) were to seek the expenses from him, and he (the child) was affluent, he would return (the expenditure money) back to him, and if he was insolvent, whatever was spent upon him would be (counted as) charity’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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