الكافي- ط الاسلامية, volume 6, page 200

Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Muhammad Bin Al Husayn, from Muhammad Bin Abdullah Bin Hilal, from Muhammad Bin Muslim, (It has been narrated) from Abu Ja’far asws the 1 st , said, ‘I asked him asws about a slave girl with an arranged emancipation who absconded from her master for a period of several years. Then she came back after her master had died, with a child, and a lot of belongings, and two witnesses testified for her that her master had arranged for her emancipation during his lifetime from before she had absconded. So Abu Ja’far asws said: ‘I asws view that she and the entirety of what is with her, so it is for the inheritors’. I said, ‘She would not be emancipated from a third of her (deceased) master?’ He asws said: ‘No, because she absconded, being disobedient to Allah azwj and her master, so the absconding invalidated the arranged emancipation’.

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

Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from Muhammad Bin Yahya Al Khash’amy, from Gayas Bin Ibrahim, (It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah asws that Amir Al-Momineen asws said regarding the absconded (slave) of a Muslim: ‘He would be returned upon the Muslim’. And he asws said regarding a man who seized an absconding slave, so he absconded from him. He asws said: ‘There is nothing upon him’.

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

Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from one of our companions, (It has been narrated) raising it from Abu Abdullah asws having said: ‘The owned slave, when he flees and does not exit from his city, does not constitute as having absconded’.

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

Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, and Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from his father, from Ibn Mahboub, from Al Hassan Bin Salih who said, ‘I asked Abu Abdullah asws about a man who came across an absconding slave, so he seized him, and the slave escaped from him. He asws said: ‘There is nothing upon him’. I said, ‘Supposing he came across a slave girl who had stolen from a neighbour of his, so he seizes in order to come over with her, so she dies’. (He asws said): ‘There is nothing upon him’.

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