Asim narrates that Abu Al-Aliyah fell ill and he freed a slave. People informed him that the slave had gone beyond the river. He said, "If he is alive, I do not free him, and if he has died, then he is free." And then he recited this verse { وَلَہُ ذُرِّیَّۃٌ ضُعَفَائُ } (and his weak offspring).