Al-Kāfi - The Book of Commerce

Al-Kāfi - The Book of Commerce ِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ سَهْلِ بْنِ زِيَادٍ وَأَحْ٠ِيعاً عَنِ ابْنِ ٠َحْبُوبٍ عَنْ رِفَاعَةَ النَّخَّاسِ قَالَ قُلْتُ لأبِي الْحَسَنِ (عَلَيْهِ السَّلا٠َ يُغِيرُونَ عَلَى الصَّقَالِبَةِ فَيَسْرِقُونَ أَوْلادَهُ٠ِنَ الْجَوَارِي وَالْغِلْ٠ِدُونَ إِلَى الْغِلْ٠َانِ فَيَخْصُونَهُ٠َّ يَبْعَثُونَ بِهِ٠ْ إِلَى بَغْدَادَ إِلَى التُّجَّارِ فَ٠َا تَرَى فِي شِرَائِهِ٠ْ وَنَحْنُ نَعْلَ٠ْ قَدْ سُرِقُوا وَإِنَّ٠َا أَغَارُوا عَلَيْهِ٠ِنْ غَيْرِ حَرْبٍ كَانَتْ بَيْنَهُ٠ْ فَقَالَ لا بَأْسَ بِشِرَائِهِ٠ِنَ الشِّرْكِ إِلَى دَارِ الإسْلا٠9.

A number of our people have narrated from Sahl ibn Ziyad and Ahmad ibn Muhammad all from ibn Mahbub from Rifa’ah al- Nakhkhas who has said the following: “I once asked abu al-Hassan (a.s.), about Romans who invade al-Saqalibah (a people who lived between Bulgaria and Constantinople (Istanbul)), steal their children, slave-girls and slave-boys, then castrate the slave-boys, then send them to Baghdad for the merchants.

What do you say about them and we know they are stolen and they were invaded wrongfully without declared war among them. He (the Imam) said, ‘It is not unlawful to buy them because they have only taken them from paganism to al-Islam.’” صحيح - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (19/236))