Asim narrates that Hazrat Abu Al-Aaliyah fell ill, so he freed one of his slaves about whom it was said to him that he had gone across 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 mentioned this verse: { وَلَہُ ذُرِّیَّۃٌ ضُعَفَائُ }.