حدثنا جيهان بن أبي الحسن الفرغاني، قال: حدثنا بشر بن يحيى، قال: سمعت محمد بن الحسن، قال: سمعت أبا يوسف رحمة الله عليهما، يقول: لما قدم ربيعة بن أبي عبد الرحمن الكوفة هيَّأتُ له مسألة فيها اختلاف بين أبي حنيفة وابن أبي ليلى، فقلت: أسأله فإن أجاب بقول أبي حنيفة رحمة الله عليه كلمتُه على مذهب ابن أبي ليلى، وإن أجاب بقول ابن أبي ليلى رحمه الله كلمتُه على مذهب أبي حنيفة رحمه الله، وكنت أحب أن يكون سأل بحضرة أبي حنيفة رحمه الله، فتحيّنت ذلك الوقت حتى كان بينهما اجتماع، فسألت ربيعة، فقلت له: ما تقول في عبد بين اثنين أعتق أحدهما نصيبه وهو موسر؟ فقال: لا يعتق شيء من العبد، فلم يجب بقول أبي حنيفة ولا بقول ابن أبي ليلى، وانتقض على ما كنت هيَّأته، وعرف أبو حنيفة ذلك مني فجعل يتبسم، فقلت لربيعة: لم لا يعتق العبد؟ فقال: لأنه ضرر على شريكه، وقال النبي عليه السلام: «لا ضرر ولا ضرار في الإسلام»، فقال له أبو حنيفة: إن كان كما تقول فالضرر على المعتِق دون شريكه، فقال: وكيف؟ قال: لأن شريكه يرجع إليه ببدل ما يخرج من ملكه، والمعتق يُمنع من عتق عبده والتصرف في ملكه، فالضرر عليه أكثر مما على شريكه، فانقطع ربيعة وسكت.
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Jīhān ibn Abī al-Ḥasan al-Farghānī related to us. He said: Bishr ibn Yaḥyā related to us. He said: I heard Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan say: I heard Abū Yūsuf, may God have mercy on them both, say: When Rabīʿa ibn Abī ʿAbd al-Raḥmān came to Kufa, I prepared a question for him on which Abū Ḥanīfa and Ibn Abī Laylā differed. I said to myself: “I will ask him. If he answers according to Abū Ḥanīfa’s view, may God have mercy on him, I will debate him according to Ibn Abī Laylā’s school. If he answers according to Ibn Abī Laylā’s view, may God have mercy on him, I will debate him according to Abū Ḥanīfa’s school, may God have mercy on him.” I wanted him to be asked in Abū Ḥanīfa’s presence, may God have mercy on him, so I waited for an occasion when the two met. I asked Rabīʿa: “What do you say about an enslaved man jointly owned by two people, when one of them frees his share and is well-off?” He said: “No part of the enslaved man becomes free.” He answered neither according to Abū Ḥanīfa’s view nor according to Ibn Abī Laylā’s, and what I had prepared fell apart. Abū Ḥanīfa realized this and began to smile. I said to Rabīʿa: “Why does the enslaved man not become free?” He said: “Because it harms his partner. The Prophet, peace be upon him, said: ‘There is neither harm nor reciprocal harm in Islam.’” Abū Ḥanīfa said to him: “If it is as you say, the harm falls on the person freeing him, rather than his partner.” He said: “How?” He said: “Because his partner can seek compensation from him for what leaves his ownership, while the person freeing him is prevented from freeing his slave and disposing of his property. The harm to him is greater than that to his partner.” Rabīʿa was unable to reply and fell silent.
Source · Volume 1 · Printed page 72 · Report 116
2020 edition · Volume 1
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Narrators: Jīhān ibn Abī al-Ḥasan · Bishr ibn Yaḥyā · Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan · أبو يوسف