كَانَ أَذِنَ لِغُلَامٍ لَهُ فِي الشِّرَاءِ وَ الْبَيْعِ فَأَفْلَسَ وَ لَزِمَهُ دَيْنٌ فَأُخِذَ بِذَلِكَ الدَّيْنِ الَّذِي عَلَيْهِ وَ لَيْسَ يُسَاوِي ثَمَنُهُ مَا عَلَيْهِ مِنَ الدَّيْنِ فَسَأَلَ أَبَا عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) فَقَالَ إِنْ بِعْتَهُ لَزِمَكَ الدَّيْنُ وَ إِنْ أَعْتَقْتَهُ لَمْ يَلْزَمْكَ الدَّيْنُ فَأَعْتَقَهُ فَلَمْ يَلْزَمْهُ شَيْءٌ .
Translation
One of our companions, from Muhammad Bin Al Husayn, from Usman Bin Isa, from Zareyf Al Akfany, said, ‘He authorised a slave of his regarding the buying and the selling, so he became bankrupt, and the debts were necessitated upon him. So he was seized due to that debt which was upon him, and it was not equal to his (slave’s) price what was upon him from the debt. So he asked Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup>, so he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘If you sell him the debts would be necessitated upon you, and if you liberate him, the debts would not be necessitated upon you’. So he liberated him, and nothing was necessitated upon him’.
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