Chapter on the Allegiance of the Freed Slave
Man Lā Yaḥḍuruh al-Faqīh|Volume 3|Book 1|Chapter 49
وَ رَوَى يَاسِينُ عَنْ حَرِيزٍ عَنْ سُلَيْمَانَ بْنِ خَالِدٍ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اَللَّهِ عَلَيْهِ اَلسَّلاَمُ قَالَ: سَأَلْتُهُ عَنْ مَمْلُوكٍ أَرَادَ أَنْ يَشْتَرِيَ نَفْسَهُ فَدَسَّ إِنْسَاناً هَلْ لِلْمَدْسُوسِ أَنْ يَشْتَرِيَهُ كُلَّهُ مِنْ مَالِ اَلْعَبْدِ وَ لاَ يُخْبِرَ اَلسَّيِّدَ أَنَّهُ إِنَّمَا يَشْتَرِيهِ مِنْ مَالِ اَلْعَبْدِ قَالَ "لاَ يَنْبَغِي وَ إِنْ أَرَادَ أَنْ يَسْتَحِلَّ ذَلِكَ فِيمَا بَيْنَهُ وَ بَيْنَ اَللَّهِ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ حَتَّى يَكُونَ وَلاَؤُهُ لَهُ فَلْيَزِدْ هُوَ مَا يَشَاءُ بَعْدَ أَنْ يَكُونَ زِيَادَةٌ مِنْ مَالِهِ فِي ثَمَنِ اَلْعَبْدِ يَسْتَحِلُّ بِهِ اَلْوَلاَءَ فَيَكُونُ وَلاَءُ اَلْعَبْدِ لَهُ".
Yasin narrated from Hariz, from Sulayman ibn Khalid, from Abu Abdullah عليه السلام, who said: I asked him about a slave who wants to purchase his freedom and secretly arranges for someone else to buy him. Is it permissible for the person acting on behalf of the slave to buy him entirely with the slave's own money and not inform the master that the purchase is being made with the slave's money? Imam عليه السلام said: "It is not proper. However, if the slave wants to make it permissible between himself and Allah سبحانه وتعالى, the Mighty and Majestic, so that the wala' (bond of loyalty) belongs to him, then let him add any amount he wishes (as an extra payment) from his own money toward the purchase price. By doing so, he makes the wala' lawful, and the wala' of the slave becomes his."
- Ṣaḥīḥ al-Faqīh