Hadith record

Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, and ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, altogether, from Ibn Mahboub, from Umar Bin Yazeed who said, ‘I asked Abu Abdullah asws about a man who intended to emancipated an owned slave of his, and his master had taken from him his earnings, which he had enforced upon him during every year. The master was pleased with that, and the slave was pleased with that. So the slave achieved wealth in his business besides what he used to give to his master, from the earning. So he asws said: ‘When he has paid off to his master what was necessitated upon him, so whatever he achieved after the enforcement, so it is for the slave’. Then Abu Abdullah asws said: ‘Is it not that Allah azwj Mighty and Majestic has Obligated the Obligations upon the servants. So when they fulfill these to Him azwj , He azwj does not Question them about what is besides that’. I said, ‘So what is your asws view, is it for the slave if he were to give in charity from what he earns, and he emancipates (a slave) after the enforced (amount) which he used to pay to his master?’ He asws said: ‘Yes, that (payment) is Obligated upon him’. I said, ‘So if the slave were to emancipate (a slave) from what he has earned besides the enforced (payment), so for whom would be the guardianship of the emancipated slave?’ So he asws said: ‘He would go and give his guardianship to the one he so likes to. So when he takes the responsibility of his crimes, and his intellect, he would be his master, and would inherit him’. I said to him asws , ‘Did not Rasool-Allah saww say: ‘The guardianship is for the one who emancipates?’ So he asws said: ‘He is an emancipated slave, his guardianship does not happen to be for a slave like him’. I said, ‘Supposing the slave were to take the responsibility for the one who emancipated him, for his crimes, and his actions, would that necessitate him, and he would become his master and inherit him?’ So he asws said: ‘That is not allowed, and a slave would not inherit a free man’.

Translation: HubeAli — attributed by Thaqalayn·The Arabic above is the original.