الكافي- ط الاسلامية, volume 6, page 199

Al Husayn Bin Muhammad, from Ahmad Bin Is’haq, and Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, altogether, from Bakr Bin Muhammad Al Azdy who said, ‘I went over to Abu Abdullah asws and with me was Ali Bin Abdul Aziz. So he asws said to me: ‘Who is this?’ So I said, ‘A slave of ours’. So he asws said: ‘Have you emancipated him, or his father?’ So I said, ‘But his father’. So he asws said: ‘This one is not your slave. This is your brother, and a son of your uncle. But rather, the slave, he is the one upon whom the bounty flows. So when it flowed upon his father, so he is your brother, and a son of your uncle’.

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

Bakr Bin Muhammad, from Juweyria who said, ‘Abu Abdullah asws passed by me, and I was in the Sacred Masjid, awaiting a slave of ours. So he asws said: ‘O Umm Usman! What makes you stay over here?’ So I said, ‘I am awaiting a slave of ours’. So he asws said: ‘Have you emancipated him?’ So I said, ‘No’. So he asws said: ‘Have you emancipated his father?’ I said, ‘No. We emancipated his grandfather’. So he asws said: ‘This is not your slave, but this is your brother’.

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

Muhammad Bin yahya, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from Musa Bin Umar, from A man, from Al Husayn Bin Ulwan, (It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah asws having said: ‘A companion of twenty years is a relative’.

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

Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from Muhammad Bin Khalid, and Al Husayn Bin Saeed altogether, from Al Qasim Bin Urwa, from Abdul Hameed, from Muhammad Bin Muslim, (It has been narrated) from Abu Ja’far asws having said: ‘Three (people) Allah azwj Mighty and Majestic will not Accept their Prayers – one of them is the absconding slave until he returns to his master’.

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

Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad Bin Abu Nasr, from Abu Jameela, from Zayd Al Shahaam, (It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah asws having been asked, ‘A man fears the absconding of his slave, or the slave happened to have absconded, should he constrain him, or make him to be in his slavery? Your asws view?’ So he asws said: ‘But rather, he is at the status of a camel which fears its owner. So when it fears that, so it is confident from it, but satiate it (feed it), and clothe it’. I said, ‘And how much is its satiation?’ So he asws said: ‘As for us asws , so we asws used to feed our asws families from two handfuls of dates’.

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

Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Abu Hashim Al Ja’fary who said, ‘I asked Abu Al-Hassan asws about a man whose owned slave had absconded from him, is he allowed that he emancipates him regarding an expiation of Al-Zahaar ?’ He asws said: ‘There is no problem with it, for as long as death is not recognised from him’. Abu Hashim, may Allah azwj be Pleased with him said, ‘And it was Nasr Bin Aamir Al Qummy who had asked me that I ask him asws about that’.

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