One Who Sets Free a Slave and He is Indebted
Al-Kāfi|Volume 7|Book 1|Chapter 19
2- عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ [عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي عُمَيْرٍ] عَنْ جَمِيلِ بْنِ دَرَّاجٍ عَنْ زُرَارَةَ عَنْ أَحَدِهِمَا (عَلَيْهِما السَّلام) فِي رَجُلٍ أَعْتَقَ مَمْلُوكَهُ عِنْدَ مَوْتِهِ وَعَلَيْهِ دَيْنٌ قَالَ إِنْ كَانَ قِيمَتُهُ مِثْلَ الَّذِي عَلَيْهِ وَمِثْلَهُ جَازَ عِتْقُهُ وَإِلا لَمْ يَجُزْ.
2. Ali ibn Ibrahim has narrated from his father [from Ibn Abi ‘Umayr] from Jamil ibn Darraj from Zurarah who has narrated the following: “About the case of a man who frees his slave at the time of his death with debt on him, one of the two Imam, (abu Ja‘far or abu ‘Abd Allah), ‘Alayhim al-Salam, has said, ‘If the value of the debt and slave are equal, freeing is permissible, otherwise, it is not permissible.”’
- Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (23/44)
- Ṣaḥīḥ al-Kāfī, vol. 3, p. 244