it suffices; because the completion of the legal status is achieved. If it is a slave, it is not permissible because that is not achieved. Our position is that portions (ashqas) are like persons (ashkhas) in matters that are not prevented by minor defects, and the evidence for this is Zakat. By this, we mean that if he possesses an undivided half of eighty sheep, Zakat becomes obligatory, just as if he owned forty individually. This is also the case with sacrificial gifts (hadaya) and animals for sacrifice (dahaya) when people share in them. The more correct view is that the emancipation of two halves does not suffice if the remainder of them is not free, because the unrestricted term "releasing a neck" (itlaq al-raqaba) refers only to the emancipation of a complete one, and the two portions do not achieve what a complete neck achieves regarding the completion of legal statuses and the liberation of the human being from the harm and deficiency of slavery. Therefore, the legal rulings that are established by the emancipation of a complete neck are not established by this. The analogy of the two portions to a complete neck is blocked; for this reason, if someone were ordered to purchase or sell a neck, or to give an animal as a gift or charity, he would not be permitted to use fractional parts (shiqs). The same applies here.

1825 - Issue: He said: (And if he emancipates half of a slave, and feeds five poor people, or clothes them, it does not suffice him.)

We are not aware of any disagreement regarding this. This is because their objectives are different and distinct. The purpose of emancipation is the completion of legal statuses and the liberation of the emancipated person from slavery, whereas the purpose of feeding and clothing is to satisfy hunger and sustain life by averting starvation through feeding, and covering the private parts and preventing the harm of heat and cold through clothing. Because their meanings are proximate and their place of expenditure (masrif) is the same, they have been treated as a single category, and thus the expiation is completed by one through the other, and that is why their numbers were equated. Due to the distance between the purpose of emancipation and these two, the difference in their place of expenditure, and their disparity from it, they are not treated as a single category; therefore, neither one completes the other, and that is why their numbers differ from each other.

Section: If he feeds some of the poor, or clothes them, or emancipates half of a slave, and he does not have