Hadith record

3. A number of our people have narrated from Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn ‘Isa from al-Husayn ibn Sa‘id from Hammad ibn ‘Isa from Shu’ayb ibn Ya‘qub who has said the following: “Abu ‘Abd Allah, Alayhi al-Salam, has said, ‘Those who were before us would say, ‘Setting free of a slave or divorce does not have any valid effect until a man has an ownership and marriage.’”

Translation: Muhammad Sarwar·Thaqalayn link·The Arabic above is the original.