Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr al-Ṣiddīq

ʿAbd al-Raḥīm ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Isḥāq al-Simnānī related to us. He said: Al-Khalīl ibn Hind al-Simnānī related to us. He said: Hishām ibn ʿUbayd Allāh related to us, from ʿAbd al-Karīm ibn Muḥammad. He said: Abū Ḥanīfa related to us, from Simāk ibn Ḥarb, God have mercy on him, from Qābūs, from Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr al-Ṣiddīq, God be pleased with him, who said: ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib, God be pleased with him, wrote to me that when a slave contracted to purchase his freedom dies while still owing some of the contractual payment, the balance of that payment is taken from his property and whatever remains belongs to his heirs.