Chapter on Revoking a Bequest

Muhammad ibn Abi Umayr narrated from Bukayr ibn Aʿyan from Ubayd ibn Zurarah, who said: I heard Abu Abdullah Imam Jafar ibn Muhammad Al-Sadiq عليه السلام say: "The one making a will has the right to revoke it, whether he is in good health or ill."

Yunus ibn Abd Al-Rahman narrated from Abdullah ibn Muskan from Abu Abdullah Imam Jafar ibn Muhammad Al-Sadiq عليه السلام, who said: "The Commander of the Faithful عليه السلام ruled that the manumitted slave (Al-mudabbar) is to be freed from one-third of the estate. A man has the right to revoke his will, to add to it or reduce from it, as long as he has not passed away."

In the narration of Yunus ibn Abd Al-Rahman with his chain of transmission, Imam Ali ibn Al-Hussain عليه السلام said: "A man has the right to alter his will. He may free the one he had initially ordered to be owned, and he may grant ownership to the one he had initially ordered to be freed. He may give to the one he had previously deprived and deprive the one he had previously granted, as long as he has not retracted from his decision."