قُلْتُ لَهُ الرَّجُلُ لَهُ الْوَلَدُ أَ يَسَعُهُ أَنْ يَجْعَلَ مَالَهُ لِقَرَابَتِهِ فَقَالَ هُوَ مَالُهُ يَصْنَعُ بِهِ مَا شَاءَ إِلَى أَنْ يَأْتِيَهُ الْمَوْتُ إِنَّ لِصَاحِبِ الْمَالِ أَنْ يَعْمَلَ بِمَالِهِ مَا شَاءَ مَا دَامَ حَيّاً إِنْ شَاءَ وَهَبَهُ وَ إِنْ شَاءَ تَصَدَّقَ بِهِ وَ إِنْ شَاءَ تَرَكَهُ إِلَى أَنْ يَأْتِيَهُ الْمَوْتُ فَإِنْ أَوْصَى بِهِ فَلَيْسَ لَهُ إِلَّا الثُّلُثُ إِلَّا أَنَّ الْفَضْلَ فِي أَنْ لَا يُضَيِّعَ مَنْ يَعُولُهُ وَ لَا يُضِرَّ بِوَرَثَتِهِ . وَ قَدْ رُوِيَ أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) قَالَ لِرَجُلٍ مِنَ الْأَنْصَارِ أَعْتَقَ مَمَالِيكَ لَهُ لَمْ يَكُنْ لَهُ غَيْرُهُمْ فَعَابَهُ النَّبِيُّ ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) وَ قَالَ تَرَكَ صِبْيَةً صِغَاراً يَتَكَفَّفُونَ النَّاسَ .
Translation
Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Muhammad Bin Al Husayn, from Abdullah Bin Al Mubarak, from Abdullah Bin Jabala, from Sama’at, from Abu Baseer, (The narrator says): ‘I said to Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup>, ‘The man has the son for him. Does he have the leeway that he makes his wealth to be for his relatives?’ So he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘It is his wealth. He places whatever he so desires to, until the death comes upon him. It is for the owner of the wealth that he does with his wealth whatever he so desires to so long as he is alive. If he so desires, gifts it, and if he so desires, he gives it in charity with it, and if he so desires he leaves it, until the death comes to him. But, if he were to bequeath with it, so there is not for him except for the third (to be given away as charity), except that the preference in that is the he should not waste it from the ones who are dependent upon him, nor harm his inheritors. And it has been reported that the Prophet<sup>saww</sup> said for a man from the Helpers who had liberated his slaves, not having for himself other than them, so the Prophet<sup>saww</sup> faulted him and said: ‘He left young children (of his) to beg from the people’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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