سُئِلَ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) وَ أَنَا حَاضِرٌ عَنْ رَجُلٍ تَزَوَّجَ امْرَأَةً عَلَى جَارِيَةٍ لَهُ مُدَبَّرَةٍ قَدْ عَرَفَتْهَا الْمَرْأَةُ وَ تَقَدَّمَتْ عَلَى ذَلِكَ ثُمَّ طَلَّقَهَا قَبْلَ أَنْ يَدْخُلَ بِهَا قَالَ فَقَالَ أَرَى أَنَّ لِلْمَرْأَةِ نِصْفَ خِدْمَةِ الْمُدَبَّرَةِ يَكُونُ لِلْمَرْأَةِ مِنَ الْمُدَبَّرَةِ يَوْمٌ فِي الْخِدْمَةِ وَ يَكُونُ لِسَيِّدِهَا الَّذِي كَانَ دَبَّرَهَا يَوْمٌ فِي الْخِدْمَةِ قِيلَ لَهُ فَإِنْ مَاتَتِ الْمُدَبَّرَةُ قَبْلَ الْمَرْأَةِ وَ السَّيِّدِ لِمَنْ يَكُونُ الْمِيرَاثُ قَالَ يَكُونُ نِصْفُ مَا تَرَكَتْ لِلْمَرْأَةِ وَ النِّصْفُ الْآخَرُ لِسَيِّدِهَا الَّذِي دَبَّرَهَا .
Translation
Al Hassan Bin Mahboub, from Abu Jameela, from Moalla Bin Khunays who said, ‘Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup> was asked and I was present, about a man who married a woman upon a slave girl (as an additional wife) for whom the emancipation was assigned to be upon the death of her master, and the woman had recognised that and she proceeded upon that. Then he divorced her before he had copulated with her. So he<sup>asws</sup> said : ‘I<sup>asws</sup> see that for the woman is half the service of the slave girl, so there would happen to be one day for the woman from the slave girl with regards to serving, and there would happen to be one day of service for her master who had contracted it with regards to the service’. It was said to him<sup>asws</sup>, ‘Supposing the slave girl were to die before the woman and the master, for whom would be the inheritance?’ He<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘Half of whatever she leaves would be for the woman, and the other half would be for her master who had contracted with her’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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