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.

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.

Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Al Nowfaly, from Al Sakuny, (It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah asws that Amir Al-Momineen asws , they disputed to him asws regarding a man who had seized an absconding slave, and he was with him, then he fled from him. He would be made to swear an oath by Allah azwj , besides Whom there is not god except for Him azwj , that he did not confiscate his clothes, nor anything from what was upon him, nor did he sell him, nor coaxed him during his sending. So when he swears, he is free from the responsibility’.

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

Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Al Amraky Bin Ali, (It has been narrated) from Ali son of Ja’far asws , from his brother asws Abu Al-Hassan asws , said, ‘I asked him asws about making the absconding slave suffer humiliation. He asws said: ‘There is no problem with it’.

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