عِدَّةٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ سَهْلِ بْنِ زِيَادٍ وَ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ جَمِيعاً عَنِ ابْنِ مَحْبُوبٍ عَنْ رِفَاعَةَ النَّخَّاسِ قَالَ:
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قُلْتُ لِأَبِي الْحَسَنِ ع إِنَّ الرُّومَ يُغِيرُونَ عَلَى الصَّقَالِبَةِ فَيَسْرِقُونَ أَوْلَادَهُمْ مِنَ الْجَوَارِي وَ الْغِلْمَانِ فَيَعْمِدُونَ إِلَى الْغِلْمَانِ فَيَخْصُونَهُمْ ثُمَّ يَبْعَثُونَ بِهِمْ إِلَى بَغْدَادَ إِلَى التُّجَّارِ فَمَا تَرَى فِي شِرَائِهِمْ وَ نَحْنُ نَعْلَمُ أَنَّهُمْ قَدْ سُرِقُوا وَ إِنَّمَا أَغَارُوا عَلَيْهِمْ مِنْ غَيْرِ حَرْبٍ كَانَتْ بَيْنَهُمْ فَقَالَ لَا بَأْسَ بِشِرَائِهِمْ إِنَّمَا أَخْرَجُوهُمْ مِنَ الشِّرْكِ إِلَى دَارِ الْإِسْلَامِ.
Read English translationHide English translationMuhammad Sarwar — attributed by Thaqalayn
9. A number of our people have narrated from Sahl ibn Ziyad and Ahmad ibn Muhammad all from ibn Mahbub from Rifa’ah al- Nakhkhas who has said the following: “I once asked abu al-Hassan (a.s.), about Romans who invade al-Saqalibah (a people who lived between Bulgaria and Constantinople (Istanbul)), steal their children, slave-girls and slave-boys, then castrate the slave-boys, then send them to Baghdad for the merchants. What do you say about them and we know they are stolen and they were invaded wrongfully without declared war among them. He (the Imam) said, ‘It is not unlawful to buy them because they have only taken them from paganism to al-Islam.’”
Translation: Muhammad Sarwar — attributed by Thaqalayn·The Arabic above is the original.
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1- صحيحAllamah Baqir al-MajlisiMirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (19/236)
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[2]الصقالبة- بالصاد و السين-: جيل من الناس حمر الالوان كانوا بين بلغر و قسطنطينية.ص 210
[3]خصيت الفحل خصاء- بالمد- اذا سللت خصيته.ص 210