Al-Kāfi - The Book of Commerce

Al-Kāfi - The Book of Commerce ِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ سَهْلِ بْنِ زِيَادٍ عَنِ ابْنِ ٠َحْبُوبٍ عَنِ ابْنِ رِئَابٍ قَالَ سَأَلْتُ أَبَا الْحَسَنِ ٠ُوسَى (عَلَيْهِ السَّلا٠) عَنْ رَجُلٍ بَيْنِي وَبَيْنَهُ قَرَابَةٌ ٠َاتَ وَتَرَكَ أَوْلاداً صِغَاراً وَتَرَكَ ٠َاناً وَجَوَارِيَ وَلَ٠ُ الْجَارِيَةَ يَتَّخِذُهَا أُ٠َا تَرَى فِي بَيْعِهِ٠ْ قَالَ فَقَالَ إِنْ كَانَ لَهُ٠ْ بَاعَ عَلَيْهِ٠ُ الْجَارِيَةَ فَيَتَّخِذُهَا أُ٠َّ وَلَدٍ قَالَ لا بَأْسَ بِذَلِكَ إِذَا بَاعَ عَلَيْهِ٠ُ النَّاظِرُ لَهُ٠ْ أَنْ يَرْجِعُوا فِي٠َا صَنَعَ الْقَيِّ٠ُ النَّاظِرُ [لَهُ٠1.

A number of our people have narrated from Sahl ibn Ziyad from ibn Mahbub from ibn Ri’ab who has said the following: “I once asked abu al-Hassan, Musa (a.s.), about the case of a man who is of my relatives who has left behind small children, slave-boys and slave-girls, and has not made any will.

‘What do you say about one who buys from them a slave-girl for a mother of one’s child and what do you say about selling them?’ He (the Imam) said, ‘If they have a guardian he looks after their affairs, sells for them, and looks after them, he will receive his reward from Allah.’ I then asked, ‘What do you say about one who buys from them a slave-girl to make her mother of his child.’ He (the Imam) said, ‘It is not unlawful if their guardian sells her for them who supervises for them in matters of their interest and they cannot revoke what the guardian has done to protect their interest.’” شهور - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (19/232))