الكافي- ط الاسلامية, volume 6, page 197

Abu Al Ashary, from Muhammad Bin Abdul Jabbar, from Ismail Bin Sahl, from Muawiya Bin Maysara, (It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah asws , said, ‘I asked him asws about a man who sold his slave at a loss from his price in order to emancipate. So the slave said to him, ‘With regards to what is between the two (prices), for you, upon me is such and such’. Can he take it from him?’ So he asws said: ‘He takes it from him as a pardon, and he asks him for it to be excused. So if he (master) refuses, so let him (the slave) pay it’.

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Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Ismail Bin Marrar, from Yunus, ‘He asws said regarding a man who had a number of owned slaves. So he said, ‘Whichever of you teaches me a Verse from the Book of Allah azwj Mighty and Majestic, so he is free’. So one of them taught him. Then the master died, and it was not known which of them was the one who taught him the Verse. Can a lot be drawn?’ He asws said: ‘Yes, and it is not allowed for anyone to extract him except for the Imam asws , as for it is speech (to be recited), and a time for the drawing of lots, and a supplication which no one knows besides him asws , nor is anyone able over it apart from him asws ’.

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Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Abdullah Bin Muhammad, from Ali Bin Al Hakam,f rom Aban, from Ismail Bin Al Fazal who said, ‘I asked Abu Abdullah asws about the man when is emancipated, is it for him that he places himself wherever he so desires to, and makes a guardian to the one whom he loves to?’ So he asws said: ‘When he is emancipated for the Sake of Allah azwj , so he is a slave of the one who emancipated him. So when he is emancipated and is made a freed slave, so for him is that he places himself wherever he so desires to and makes a guardian the one who he so desires to’.

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