One Who Sets Free a Slave and He is Indebted
Al-Kāfi|Volume 7|Book 1|Chapter 19
3- مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عِيسَى عَنِ ابْنِ فَضَّالٍ عَنِ الْحَسَنِ بْنِ الْجَهْمِ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ أَبَا الْحَسَنِ (عَلَيْهِ السَّلام) يَقُولُ فِي رَجُلٍ أَعْتَقَ مَمْلُوكاً لَهُ وَقَدْ حَضَرَهُ الْمَوْتُ وَأَشْهَدَ لَهُ بِذَلِكَ وَقِيمَتُهُ سِتُّمِائَةِ دِرْهَمٍ وَعَلَيْهِ دَيْنٌ ثَلاثُمِائَةِ دِرْهَمٍ وَلَمْ يَتْرُكْ شَيْئاً غَيْرَهُ قَالَ يُعْتَقُ مِنْهُ سُدُسُهُ لأنَّهُ إِنَّمَا لَهُ مِنْهُ ثَلاثُمِائَةِ دِرْهَمٍ وَيُقْضَى مِنْهُ ثَلاثُمِائَةِ دِرْهَمٍ فَلَهُ مِنَ الثَّلاثِمِائَةٍ ثُلُثُهَا وَهُوَ السُّدُسُ مِنَ الْجَمِيعِ.
3. Muhammad ibn Yahya has narrated from Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn ‘Isa from ibn Faddal from al-Husayn Aban al-Jahm who has narrated the following: “This is about the case of a man who frees his slave at the time of his death in front of witnesses. The price of the slave is six hundred dirham, his debt is three hundred dirham and he has no other legacy. I once heard abu al-Hassan عليه السلام, say, ‘One-sixth of him is free because he owns from him three hundred and the other three hundred is for the debt. Thus out of three hundred one-third is his which is one-sixth of the total.’”
- Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (3/45)
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