19. Muhammad ibn Yahya has narrated from in a marfu‘ manner from Hammad ibn ‘Isa who has narrated the following: Abu ‘Abd Allah عليه السلام, has said that a taxpayer slave who had become a Muslim was brought before Amir al-Mu’minin, Ali عليه السلام. He (the Imam) issued a judgment that said, ‘You (people of the state) must sell him to a Muslim and pay his price to his owner and do not leave him with him.’”