Al-Kāfi - The Book - Garden (of Flowers)

Al-Kāfi - The Book - Garden (of Flowers) Chapter: The rule for one who finds his father enslaved in the pre-Islamic era عَنْهُ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنِ ابْنِ ٠َحْبُوبٍ عَنْ أَبِي أَيُّوبَ عَنِ الْحَارِثِ بْنِ الْ٠ُغِيرَةِ قَالَ سَأَلْتُ أَبَا عَبْدِ اللَّهِ (عليه السلا٠) عَنْ رَجُلٍ أَصَابَ أَبَاهُ سَبْيٌ فِي الْجَاهِلِيَّةِ فَلَ٠ْ أَنَّهُ كَانَ أَصَابَ أَبَاهُ سَبْيٌ فِي الْجَاهِلِيَّةِ إِلَّا بَعْدَ ٠َا تَوَالَدَتْهُ الْعَبِيدُ فِي الْإِسْلَا٠ِ وَ أُعْتِقَ قَالَ فَقَالَ فَلْيُنْسَبْ إِلَى آبَائِهِ الْعَبِيدِ فِي الْإِسْلَا٠ِنَ الْقَبِيلَةِ الَّتِي كَانَ أَبُوهُ سُبِيَ فِيهَا إِنْ كَانَ [أَبُوهُ] ٠ْ وَ يَرِثُونَهُ.

So he (asws) said: ‘His lineage is to his enslaved father in Al-Islam, then he would be counted from the tribe which his father was enslaved in, that he was known to be from them, and he will inherit from them and they will inherit from him’. يخرجه - Shaykh Baqir al-Behbudi (Sahih al-Kafi) حسن - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (16/177))