الكافي- ط الاسلامية, volume 5, page 477

Abu Ali Al Ashary, from Muhammad Bin Abdul Jabbar, and Muhammad Bin Ismail, from Al Fazal Bin Shazaan, altogether from Safwan Bin Yahya, from Ibn Muskan, from Al Hassan Bin Ziyad, (It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah asws , said, ‘I asked him asws about the owned slave, ‘What is Permissible for him from the women?’ So he asws said: ‘Two free women, or four slave girls’. He asws said: ‘There is no problem if his master was to permit for him, so he buys from his wealth, if there was a slave girl for him, or slave girls he could go to, and his slave girls would be Permissible for him’.

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

Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from Al Husayn Bin Saeed, and Muhammad Bin Khalid, altogether, from Al Qasim Bin Urwat, from Ibn Bukeyr, from Zurara, (It has been narrated) from one of the two (5 th or 6 th Imam asws ), said, ‘I asked him asws about the owned slaves, ‘How many that he marry?’ He asws said: ‘Two free ones, or four slave girls’. And he asws said: ‘There is no problem if there was wealth in his hands, and he was permitted for it regarding the business, if he keeps concubines whatever he so desires to from the slave girls, and go to them’.

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

Humeyd Bin Ziyad, from Ibn Sama’at, from someone else, from Aban, from Is’haq Bin Ammar who said, ‘I asked Abu Abdullah asws about the owned slave whose master had permitted for him that he can buy from his wealth, the slave girl, and two and three, and his enslaved women would be Permissible for him’. He asws said: ‘He can place limits for him, which he cannot exceed’.

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

Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from Ali Bin Al Hakam, from Musa Bin Bakr, from Zurara, (It has been narrated) from Abu Ja’far asws having said, ‘When the man permits for his slave that he can keep concubines from his wealth, so he can buy as many as he so desires to, after him happened to have been permitted for it’.

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

A number of our companions, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from Al Husayn Bin Saeed, from Al Nazar Bin Suweyd, from Abdullah Bin Sinan, (It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah asws having said: ‘It is not allowed for the slave, neither freedom nor marriage, nor giving from his wealth except with a permission from his master’.

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