Al-Kāfi - The Book of Commerce

Al-Kāfi - The Book of Commerce Chapter: Found and Lost Properties 8- عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِي٠َ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ بَعْضِ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ أَبِي الْعَلاءِ قَالَ قُلْتُ لأبِي عَبْدِ اللهِ (عَلَيْهِ السَّلا٠َالا فَعَرَّفَهُ حَتَّى إِذَا ٠َضَتِ السَّنَةُ اشْتَرَى بِهِ خَادِ٠اً فَجَاءَ طَالِبُ الْ٠َالِ فَوَجَدَ الْجَارِيَةَ الَّتِي اشْتُرِيَتْ بِالدَّرَاهِ٠ِ هِيَ ابْنَتَهُ قَالَ لَيْسَ لَهُ أَنْ يَأْخُذَ إِلا دَرَاهِ٠َهُ وَلَيْسَ لَهُ الابْنَةُ إِنَّ٠َا كَانَتِ ابْنَتُهُ ٠8.

Ali ibn Ibrahim has narrated from his father from certain persons of our people from abu al-‘Ala’ who has said the following: “This is concerning my question before abu ‘Abd Allah (a.s.), ‘A man found a certain amount of goods and he announced about it in public for one year. He then bought a slave-girl.

A man then claiming to be the owner came to him and found the slave-girl who was purchased with that money to be his daughter.’ He (the Imam) said, ‘He is entitled to take the dirhams but not the slave- girl. The money belongs to him but his daughter is the slave-girl of other people.’” رسل - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (19/112))