Chapter on Bequests for Manumission, Charity, and Hajj

Al-Hasan ibn Mahbub narrated from Abu Ayyub from Sama'ah, who said: I asked Abu Abdullah عليه السلام, about a man who had made a will that a soul be freed on his behalf from one-third of his wealth with five hundred dirhams. The executor of the will bought a soul for less than five hundred, and some amount remained. What do you say about the remaining amount? Imam عليه السلام said: "It should be given to the purchased soul before it is freed, and then it should be freed on behalf of the deceased."