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Man Lā Yaḥḍuruh al-Faqīh

Shaykh Muḥammad b. ʿAlī al-Ṣaduq

Chapters on Legal Cases and Rulings

Chapter on Freedom

945. hadíth

وَ رُوِيَ عَنْ أَبِي هَاشِمٍ اَلْجَعْفَرِيِّ قَالَ: سَأَلْتُ أَبَا اَلْحَسَنِ عَلَيْهِ اَلسَّلاَمُ عَنْ رَجُلٍ لَهُ مَمْلُوكٌ قَدْ أَبَقَ مِنْهُ يَجُوزُ أَنْ يُعْتِقَهُ فِي كَفَّارَةِ اَلظِّهَارِ قَالَ "لاَ بَأْسَ بِهِ مَا لَمْ يَعْرِفْ مِنْهُ مَوْتاً".

It is narrated from Abu Hashim al-Ja'fari, who said: "I asked Abu al-Hasan (a.s), about a man who had a runaway slave. Is it permissible for him to free the slave as an expiation for zihar?" Imam (a.s) replied: 'There is no harm in it, as long as he has not come to know of the slave's death.'"

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