Chapter on the Liability of a Wet Nurse if She Rolls Over a Child, Causing Death, or Hands the Child Over to Another Wet Nurse Who Then Disappears with the Child
Man Lā Yaḥḍuruh al-Faqīh|Volume 4|Book 1|Chapter 58
Man Lā Yaḥḍuruh al-Faqīh
Volume 4, Book 1, Chapter 58
Chapter on the Liability of a Wet Nurse if She Rolls Over a Child, Causing Death, or Hands the Child Over to Another Wet Nurse Who Then Disappears with the Child
وَ رَوَى حَمَّادٌ عَنِ اَلْحَلَبِيِّ قَالَ: سُئِلَ أَبُو عَبْدِ اَللَّهِ عَلَيْهِ اَلسَّلاَمُ عَنْ رَجُلٍ اِسْتَأْجَرَ ظِئْراً فَدَفَعَ إِلَيْهَا وَلَدَهُ فَغَابَتْ عَنْهُ بِهِ سِنِينَ ثُمَّ جَاءَتْ بِالْوَلَدِ فَزَعَمَتْ أُمُّهُ أَنَّهَا لاَ تَعْرِفُهُ قَالَ "لَيْسَ لَهُمْ ذَلِكَ فَلْيَقْبَلُوهُ فَإِنَّمَا اَلظِّئْرُ مَأْمُونَةٌ".
Hammad narrated from Al-Halabi, who said: Abu Abdullah عليه السلام was asked about a man who hired a wet nurse and entrusted his child to her. She disappeared with the child for several years and then returned with the child. The mother claimed that she did not recognize the child. Imam عليه السلام said: "They do not have the right to reject him; they must accept him, for the wet nurse is trusted."
- Ṣaḥīḥ al-Faqīh