Chapter on Bequests for the Mukatab and Umm Al-Walad
Man Lā Yaḥḍuruh al-Faqīh|Volume 4|Book 1|Chapter 106
Man Lā Yaḥḍuruh al-Faqīh
Volume 4, Book 1, Chapter 106
Chapter on Bequests for the Mukatab and Umm Al-Walad
وَ رَوَى اَلْحَسَنُ بْنُ مَحْبُوبٍ عَنْ جَمِيلِ بْنِ صَالِحٍ عَنْ أَبِي عُبَيْدَةَ قَالَ: سَأَلْتُ أَبَا عَبْدِ اَللَّهِ عَلَيْهِ اَلسَّلاَمُ عَنْ رَجُلٍ كَانَتْ لَهُ أُمُّ وَلَدٍ وَ لَهُ مِنْهَا غُلاَمٌ فَلَمَّا حَضَرَتْهُ اَلْوَفَاةُ أَوْصَى لَهَا بِأَلْفَيْ دِرْهَمٍ أَوْ بِأَكْثَرَ لِلْوَرَثَةِ أَنْ يَسْتَرِقُّوهَا فَقَالَ "لاَ بَلْ تُعْتَقُ مِنْ ثُلُثِ اَلْمَيِّتِ وَ تُعْطَى مَا أَوْصَى لَهَا بِهِ".
Al-Hasan ibn Mahbub narrated from Jamil ibn Salih from Abu Ubaydah, who said: I asked Abu Abdullah عليه السلام, about a man who had a slave woman with whom he had a son. When death approached him, he bequeathed for her two thousand dirhams or more and instructed his heirs to enslave her. Imam عليه السلام said: "No, rather she should be freed from one-third of the deceased's estate and given what he had bequeathed for her."
- Ṣaḥīḥ al-Faqīh