Al-Kāfi - The Book of Wills

Chapter: Charities of the Holy Prophet, O Allah, grant compensation to Muhammad and his family worthy of their services to Your cause, Fatimah and ‘A’immah, ‘Alayhim al-Salam َيْدُ بْنُ زِيَادٍ عَنِ الْحَسَنِ بْنِ ٠َاعَةَ عَنْ جَعْفَرِ بْنِ سَ٠َاعَةَ وَغَيْرِهِ عَنْ أَبَانٍ عَنْ ٠َرْوَانَ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللهِ (عَلَيْهِ السَّلا٠) قَالَ قَالَ إِنَّ أَبَا جَعْفَرٍ (عَلَيْهِ السَّلا٠َاتَ وَتَرَكَ سِتِّينَ غُلا٠اً فَأَعْتَقَ ثُلُثَهُ٠ْ فَأَقْرَعْتُ بَيْنَهُ٠ْ فَأَخْرَجْتُ عِشْرِينَ فَأَعْتَقْتُهُ٠12.

Flumayd ibn Ziyad has narrated from al-Hassan ibn Muhammad ibn Sama‘ah, from Ja‘far ibn Sama‘ah and from more than one person from Aban from Muhammad ibn Marwan who has narrated the following: “Abu ‘Abd Allah (a.s.), has said that Abu Ja‘far (a.s.), died and left sixty slaves, of whom he set free one-third. I drew lots among them and selected twenty, and I freed them.’” جهول - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (3/91))