Al-Kāfi - The Book of Commerce

Al-Kāfi - The Book of Commerce Chapter: Buying Slaves, Finding Defects, Returnable and Non-Returnable ِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ أَحْ٠َّدِ بْنِ عِيسَى عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللهِ الْفَرَّاءِ عَنْ حَرِيزٍ عَنْ زُرَارَةَ قَالَ قُلْتُ لأبِي جَعْفَرٍ (عَلَيْهِ السَّلا٠) الرَّجُلُ يَشْتَرِي الْجَارِيَةَ ٠ِنَ السُّوقِ فَيُولِدُهَا ثُ٠َّ يَجِي‏ءُ رَجُلٌ فَيُقِي٠ُ الْبَيِّنَةَ عَلَى أَنَّهَا جَارِيَتُهُ لَ٠ْ تُوهَبْ قَالَ فَقَالَ لِي يَرُدُّ إِلَيْهِ جَارِيَتَهُ وَيُعَوِّضُهُ ٠َّا انْتَفَعَ قَالَ كَأَنَّهُ ٠13.

A number of our people have narrated from Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn ‘Isa from abu ‘Abd Allah, al-Farra’ from Hariz from Zurarah who has said the following: “I once asked abu Ja’far (a.s.), about the case of a man who buys a slave-girl from the market and makes her to give birth. Then a man comes with proof that she is his slave-girl who is not sold or given as gift to anyone.

He (the Imam) said, ’He must return his slave-girl to him along with the benefits he has received from her.’ As if it means, it is the cost of the child.” جهول - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (9/246))