Chapter on Emancipation and Its Rulings
Man Lā Yaḥḍuruh al-Faqīh|Volume 3|Book 1|Chapter 46
وَ رَوَى حَمَّادٌ عَنِ اَلْحَلَبِيِّ عَنْهُ عَلَيْهِ اَلسَّلاَمُ أَنَّهُ قَالَ: فِي اَلرَّجُلِ يَقُولُ إِنْ مِتُّ فَعَبْدِي حُرٌّ وَ عَلَى اَلرَّجُلِ دَيْنٌ قَالَ "إِنْ تُوُفِّيَ وَ عَلَيْهِ دَيْنٌ قَدْ أَحَاطَ بِثَمَنِ اَلْعَبْدِ بِيعَ اَلْعَبْدُ وَ إِنْ لَمْ يَكُنْ أَحَاطَ بِثَمَنِ اَلْعَبْدِ اُسْتُسْعِيَ اَلْعَبْدُ فِي قَضَاءِ دَيْنِ مَوْلاَهُ وَ هُوَ حُرٌّ بِهِ إِذَا أَوْفَاهُ".
Hammad narrated from al-Halabi, from Abu Abdullah عليه السلام, that he was asked about a man who said: "If I die, my slave is free," while the man was in debt. Imam عليه السلام said: "If he dies and his debt equals the value of the slave, the slave shall be sold to pay off the debt. But if the debt does not equal the value of the slave, the slave must work to pay off his master's debt, and he becomes free once the debt is fully repaid."
- Ṣaḥīḥ al-Faqīh