Same indexed hadith alkafi-11183; it ends on this printed page after beginning on pages 195-196.
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مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ مَهْزِيَارَ قَالَ:
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كَتَبْتُ إِلَيْهِ أَسْأَلُهُ عَنِ الْمَمْلُوكِ يَحْضُرُهُ الْمَوْتُ فَيُعْتِقُهُ الْمَوْلَى فِي تِلْكَ السَّاعَةِ فَيَخْرُجُ مِنَ الدُّنْيَا حُرّاً فَهَلْ لِمَوْلَاهُ فِي ذَلِكَ أَجْرٌ أَوْ يَتْرُكُهُ فَيَكُونُ لَهُ أَجْرُهُ إِذَا مَاتَ وَ هُوَ مَمْلُوكٌ فَكَتَبَ إِلَيْهِ يَتْرُكُ الْعَبْدَ مَمْلُوكاً فِي حَالِ مَوْتِهِ فَهُوَ أَجْرٌ لِمَوْلَاهُ وَ هَذَا عِتْقٌ فِي هَذِهِ السَّاعَةِ لَيْسَ بِنَافِعٍ لَهُ.
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Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, (It has been narrated) from Ali Bin Mahziyar who wrote to him asws asking him asws about the owned slave to whom death presented itself. So the master emancipates him during that moment. So he exited from the world a free man. So, is it for his master with regards to that, a recompense, or he leaves him so there would happen to be a recompense for him when he dies and he is an owned slave?’ So he asws wrote to him: ‘He should leave the slave as owned during the state of his death, so it is a recompense for his master, and this emancipation during these times, is not beneficial for him’.
Translation: HubeAli — attributed by Thaqalayn·The Arabic above is the original.