Al-Kāfi - The Book of Wills

Chapter: One Who Sets Free a Slave and He is Indebted َّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى عَنْ أَحْ٠َّدِ بْنِ عِيسَى عَنِ ابْنِ فَضَّالٍ عَنِ الْحَسَنِ بْنِ الْجَهْ٠ِعْتُ أَبَا الْحَسَنِ (عَلَيْهِ السَّلا٠) يَقُولُ فِي رَجُلٍ أَعْتَقَ ٠ْلُوكاً لَهُ وَقَدْ حَضَرَهُ الْ٠َوْتُ وَأَشْهَدَ لَهُ بِذَلِكَ وَقِي٠ٍ وَعَلَيْهِ دَيْنٌ ثَلاثُ٠ْ يَتْرُكْ شَيْئاً غَيْرَهُ قَالَ يُعْتَقُ ٠ِنْهُ سُدُسُهُ لأنَّهُ إِنَّ٠ِائَةٍ ثُلُثُهَا وَهُوَ السُّدُسُ ٠3.

Muhammad ibn Yahya has narrated from Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn ‘Isa from ibn Faddal from al-Husayn Aban al-Jahm who has narrated the following: “This is about the case of a man who frees his slave at the time of his death in front of witnesses. The price of the slave is six hundred dirham, his debt is three hundred dirham and he has no other legacy.

I once heard abu al-Hassan (a.s.), say, ‘One-sixth of him is free because he owns from him three hundred and the other three hundred is for the debt. Thus out of three hundred one-third is his which is one-sixth of the total.’” وثق كالصحيح - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (3/45))