الكافي- ط الاسلامية, volume 7, page 305

Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from Ibn Mahboub, from Hisham Bin Salim, from Abu Baseer who said, ‘I asked Abu Ja’far asws about the ‘ Mudabbir ’ (slave promised freedom upon the death of his master), who killed a man deliberately. So he asws said: ‘He would be killed due to it’. I said, ‘So if he killed him in error?’ So he asws said: ‘He would be handed over to the guardians of the killed one, so he would happen to be a slave for them, if they so desire to they can sell him, and if they so desire to they can keep him, and it is not for them that they kill him’. Then he asws said: ‘O Abu Muhammad! The ‘ Mudabbir ’ is a slave’.

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

Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Ibn Abu Umeyr, from Jameel who said, ‘I said to Abu Abdullah asws , ‘A ‘ Mudabbir ’ (Slave promised freedom upon the death of his master), who killed a man in error, who is responsible from him?’ He asws said: ‘His master has to reconcile from him. But, if they refuse, he would be handed over to the guardians of the killed one to serve them until he dies, the one who had promised him freedom. Then he is returned as free, there not being a way against him’. And in another report: ‘And he has to work regarding his value’.

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

Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from Ibn Mahboub, from Abu Muhammad Al Wabishy who said, ‘I asked Abu Abdullah asws about a group which claimed upon a slave for a crime which (the damage of which) was more than his value. So the slave accepted with it. He asws said; ‘The confession of the slave upon his master is not allowed. So if the proof is established upon what is being claimed upon the slave, the slave would be seized for it, or his master has to ransom him’.

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

A number of our companions, from Sahl Bin Ziyad, from Ibn Mahboub, from Ibn Raib, from Al Halby, (It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah asws having said: ‘When the free kills the slave, he would be fined his value, and be disciplined, so even if his value was twenty thousand Dirhams’. He asws said: ‘It is not allowed for the value of a slave to exceed the wergild of the free ones’.

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

And from him, and Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, both together from Ibn Mahboub, from Ali Bin Raib, from Al Fuzayl Bin Yasaar, (It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah asws having said regarding a salve having injured a free: ‘If the free one so desires to he can retaliate from it, and if he so desires to he can seize him, if it was such that the injuries exceeded his freedom (price), and if it did not exceed his freedom price, his master has to ransom him. So if his master refuses to ransom him, there would be for the free one, the injured, a wergild of the measure of his injuries sustained, and the remainder would be for the master. The slave would be sold, so the injured would take his right, and return the remainder upon the master’.

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