[Machine] I said to 'Ata, "There was a servant for the scribes who wrote for him. Then he died, so who does his inheritance belong to?" He replied, "Those before you used to say that it belongs to the one who hired him to assist him in his writing."
قُلْتُ لِعَطَاءٍ كَانَ لِلْمُكَاتَبِ عَبْدٌ فَكَاتَبَهُ ثُمَّ مَاتَ لِمَنْ مِيرَاثُهُ؟ قَالَ كَانَ مَنْ قَبْلَكُمْ يَقُولُونَ هُوَ لِلَّذِي كَاتَبَهُ يَسْتَعِينُ بِهِ فِي كِتَابَتِهِ