Hadith record

Ibn Mahboub, from Abu Ayoub, from Muhammad Bin Muslim who said, ‘I asked Abu Ja’far asws about a contracted slave who killed a man in error. So he asws said: ‘If it was the case that his master had stipulated upon him when he contracted him, that if he was frustrated (from paying), so he would return it with regards to the slave, so he would be at the status of the owned slave. He would be handed over to the guardians of the killed one, so if they so desire to they can kill him, and if they so desire to they can sell him. And if it was that his master, when he contracted him, did not stipulate upon him, and it was such that he had paid something off from his contract, so Ali asws was saying: ‘He would be free from the contract in proportionate to what he has paid off from his contract’. Thus it would be upon the Imam asws that he asws pays the wergild to the guardians of the killed one in accordance to what he has been freed from the contract, and the blood of a Muslim person would not be invalidated. And I asws see that whatever remains upon the contracted slave, from what he has not paid off, he would be enslave to the guardians of the killed one, to serve them for his life, in proportionate to what remains upon him, and it would not be for them that they sell him’.

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