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bayhaqi:11339Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. Muḥammad b. Yūsuf al-Raffāʾ al-Baghdādī > Abū ʿAmr ʿUthmān b. Muḥammad b. Bishr > Ismāʿīl b. Isḥāq al-Qāḍī > Ismāʿīl b. Abū Ūways > ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. Abū al-Zinād from his father

[Machine] From the scholars of the people of Madinah, they used to say that the foolish person, the one under guardianship, their divorce is valid and their emancipation is void, except that the foolish person can emancipate their child if they want to.  

البيهقي:١١٣٣٩أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو الْحَسَنِ عَلِيُّ بْنُ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ يُوسُفَ الرَّفَّاءُ الْبَغْدَادِيُّ أنبأ أَبُو عَمْرٍو عُثْمَانُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ بِشْرٍ ثنا إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ إِسْحَاقَ الْقَاضِي ثنا إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ أَبِي أُوَيْسٍ ثنا عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ أَبِي الزِّنَادِ عَنْ أَبِيهِ

عَنِ الْفُقَهَاءِ مِنْ أَهْلِ الْمَدِينَةِ أَنَّهُمْ كَانُوا يَقُولُونَ السَّفِيهُ الْمُوَلَّى عَلَيْهِ وَالْمَمْلُوكُ طَلَاقُهُمَا جَائِزٌ وَعِتَاقُهُمَا بَاطِلٌ إِلَّا أَنَّ السَّفِيهَ يُعْتِقُ أُمَّ وَلَدِهِ إِنْ شَاءَ