Abu Ali Al Ashary, from Muhammad Bin Abdul Jabbar, from Safwan, from Ibn Muskan, from Abu Baseer, (It has been narrated) from one of the two (5 th or 6 th Imam asws ), said, ‘I said to him asws , ‘The Words of Allah azwj Mighty and Majestic [2:178] O you who believe! The retaliation is Prescribed for you in the matter of the slain, the free for the free, and the slave for the slave, and the female for the female . So he asws said: ‘The free would not be killed due to the slave, but he would be whipped with intense whipping, and would be fined his value as wergild for the slave’.

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

A number of our companions, from Ahmad Bin Abu Abdullah, from Usman Bin Isa, from Sama’at, (It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah asws having said: ‘The Slave would be killed due to the free, and the free would not be killed due to the slave, but he would be fined his value, and he would be whipped with an intense whipping until he does not repeat’.

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Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Ibn Abu Umeyr, from Hammad, from Al Halby, (It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah asws having said: ‘The free would not be killed due to the slave. And when the free one kills the slave, he would be fined his value, and would be whipped with intense whipping’.

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

Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from Ali Bin Al Hakam, from Ali Bin Abu Hamza, from Abu Baseer, Abu Abdullah asws has said: ‘The free would not be killed due to a slave, even if he kills him deliberately, but he would be fined his price and would be whipped with an intense whipping when he kills him deliberately’. And he asws said: ‘The wergild of the slave is his value’.

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Ali Bin Ibrahim, from Muhammad Bin Isa, from Yunus, from Ibn Muskan, Abu Abdullah asws has said: ‘Wergild of the slave is his value. So if he was precious, so the highest of his value would be a thousand Dirhams, and the wergild of the free would not be exceeded by it’.

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

Yunus, from Aban Bin Taghlub, from the one who reported it, Abu Abdullah asws has said: ‘When the slave kills the free, he would be handed over to the guardians of the killed. So if they so desire to, they kill him, and if they so desire to, they imprison him, and if they so desire to, or leave him and he can be a slave to them’.

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

Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from hammad Bin Isa, from Hareyz, from Zurara, (It has been narrated) from one of the two (5 th or 6 th Imam asws ) regarding the slave when he kills the free, he would be handed over to the guardians of the killed one, so if they so desire to, they kill him, and if they so desire to they keep him (as a slave for them)’.

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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.

Ibn Mahboub, from Abdul Aziz Al Abdy, from Ubeyd Bin Zurara, (It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah asws regarding a man who fractured a bone of a slave. He asws said: ‘Upon him is half of the tenth of his price’.

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Ibn Mahboub, from Al Hassan Bin Salih who said, ‘I asked Abu Abdullah asws about a slave who cut-off the hand of a free man, and for him were three paralysed fingers from his hand. So he asws said: ‘And what is the value of the slave?’ I said, ‘Make it to be whatever you asws like’. He asws said: ‘If the value of the slave was more than the wergild of the two correct fingers, and the three paralysed fingers, the one whose hand was cut off has to return to the master of the slave whatever was the remainder from the value, and seize the slave; and if he so desire to he can take the value of the two correct fingers and the three paralysed fingers’. I said, ‘And how much is the value of the two correct fingers along with the palm, and the three paralysed fingers?’ He asws said: ‘The value of the two correct fingers along with the palm is two thousand Dirhams, and the value of the three paralysed fingers along with the palm is a thousand Dirhams, because it is the third from the wergild of the correct (fingers). He asws said: ‘And if it was such that the value of the slave is less than the wergild of the two correct fingers, and the three paralysed fingers, the slave would be handed over to the one whose hand was cut off, or his master has to ransom him, and he can take the slave’.

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

Ali Bin Ibrahim, from Muhammad Bin Isa, from Yunus, from the one who reported it, said, ‘He asws said: ‘It necessitates a master of the slave (to accept) the retaliation of an injury of his slave from the value of his wergild upon the accounting which comes to compensate for the injury; and when the free injures the slave, the value of his injury is from accounting of his (own) value’.

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A number of our companions, from Sahl Bin Ziyad, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad Bin Abu Nasr, from Jameel, and Ali Bin Ibrahim, from Muhammad Bin Isa, from Yunus, from Muhammad Bin Humran, (It has been narrated) both together from Abu Abdullah asws regarding a Mudabbir (slave promised freedom upon the death of his master), who killed a man in error. He asws said: ‘If his master so desires to he can pay the wergild to them, or else hand him over to them, for him to serve them. So when his master dies, meaning the one who (promised to) free him, he would return as free’. And in another report of Yunus: ‘There would be nothing upon him’.

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Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Ibn Mahboub, from Nuaym Bin Ibrahim, from Misma’a Bin Abdul Malik, Abu Abdullah asws has said: ‘A (slave) mother of the child, her crimes regarding the rights of the people are upon her master, and whatever was from the Rights of Allah azwj Mighty and Majestic regarding the legal penalties ( Hadd ), so that would be upon her body; and there would be retaliation from it for the slaves, and there would be no retaliation between the free and the slave’.

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From him, from his father, from Al Nowfaly, from Al Sakuny, (It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah asws having said: ‘Amir Al-Momineen asws said regarding a slave who blinded an eye of a free, and upon the slave was a debt: ‘Upon the slave is a legal penalty ( Hadd ) for the blinding of his eye, and it would invalidate the debt of the creditors’.

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

Abu Ali Al Ashary, from Muhammad Bin Abdul Jabbar, from Safwan, from Is’haq Bin Ammar who said, ‘I asked Abu Abdullah asws about a man for whom were two slaves. One of the two killed his companion, is it for him that he can retaliate with him besides the ruling authorities, if he so likes that?’ He asws said: ‘He was his property. He can do whatsoever he so desires to with him. If he so desires to, he can kill him, and if he so desires to he can pardon’.

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Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Ismail Bin Marrar, from Yunus, from Al Khattab Bin Salama, from Hisham Bin Ahmad who said, ‘I asked Abu Al-Hassan asws about a Mudabbir (slave promised freedom upon the death of his master), who killed a man in error. He asws said: ‘Which thing are you all reporting with regards to this?’ I said, ‘We are reporting from Abu Abdullah asws having said: ‘He would be completely handed over to the guardians of the killed one. So when the one who promised his freedom upon his own death were to die, he is free’. He asws said: ‘Glory be to Allah azwj ! So the blood of a Muslim person has been invalidated?’ I said, ‘This is how we are reporting it’. He asws said: ‘You are mistaken upon my asws father asws . He would be completely handed over to the guardians of the killed one. So when the one who promised him freedom upon his own death were to die, he has to work with regards to his value’.

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

Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Ibn Fazzal, from Yunus Bin Yaqoub, from Abu Maryam, (It has been narrated) from Abu Ja’far asws having said: ‘Amir Al-Momineen asws judged regarding a nose of the slave, or his manhood, or something which overcame his value, and he has to pay to his master the value of the slave, and take the slave’.

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