الكافي- ط الاسلامية, volume 7, page 152

Humeyd Bin ziyad, from Al Hassan Bin Muhammad, from Muhammad Bin Ziyad, from Muhammad Bin Humran, (It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah asws , said, ‘I asked him asws about a contracted slave who had paid off some of his contractual amount, then died, and left a son of his from his slave girl. He asws said: ‘If there was a stipulated condition upon him, his son and his slave girl would become two slaves, and if there was no stipulated condition upon him, his son would become free and pay off to the master the remainder of the contract, and his son would inherit whatever remains’.

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

Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Abdullah Bin Muhammad, from Ali Bin Al Hakam, from Aban, from Muhammad Bin Muslim, (It has been narrated) from one of the two (5 th or 6 th Imam asws ) regarding a contracted slave who died and he had paid off something from his contracted amount, and left wealth, and for him were two free children. So he asws said: ‘Ali asws was saying: ‘Make his wealth to be between them with the quotas’.

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

Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Ismail Bin marrar, from Yunus, from Abdullah Bin Sinan, (It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah asws , said, ‘I said to him asws , ‘A contracted slave bought himself, and left wealth of his price, a hundred thousand, and there was no inheritor for him’. He asws said: ‘He would inherit, the one who is a guardian of his actions’. I said, ‘Who is the responsible one of his actions?’ He asws said: ‘The guarantor of the actions of the Muslims’.

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

1. Ali ibn Ibrahim has narrated from his father from Ibn Abi ‘Umayr from Aban ibn ‘Uthman from those whom he has mentioned who has narrated the following: “About the case of a man who dies as an apostate and has children, abu ‘ Abd Allah (a.s.), has said, ‘His legacy belongs to his Muslim children.”’

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

2. A number of our people have narrated from Sahf ibn Ziyad and Muhammad ibn Yahya has narrated from Ahmad ibn Muhammad all from al-Hassan ibn Mahbub from abu Wallad al-Hannat who has narrated the following: “I once asked abu ‘Abd Allah (a.s.), about the case of a man who has turned away from Islam and about who inherits him. He (the Imam) said, ‘His legacy is distributed according to the book of Allah, most Majestic, most Glorious.’”

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