أبي - رحمه الله - قال: حدثنا سعد بن عبد الله، عن أيوب بن نوح، عن صفوان ابن يحيى، عن أخي دارم، عن محمد بن مسلم، قال: سمعت أبا جعفر عليه السلام يقول: من ولد في الاسلام فهو عربي، ومن دخل فيه طوعا أفضل ممن دخل فيه كرها والمولى هو الذي يؤخذ أسيرا من أرضه ويسلم فذلك المولى.
74.	My father, may Allah grant him mercy, said: We were told by Sa’d bin Abdullah, from Ayub bin Nuh, from Safwan ibn Yahya, from the brother from Darem, from Muhammed bin Muslim, that he said: I heard Abu Ja’far, peace be upon him, say: The one who is born in (the fold of) Islam is an Arab, and the one who enters it willingly is better than the one who enters it out of compulsion. A mawla is the one who is taken as a captive from his land and then accepts Islam. That is a mawla.