سَأَلْتُ أَبَا الْحَسَنِ ( عليه السلام ) عَنْ رَجُلٍ مَاتَ وَ لَهُ عَلَيَّ دَيْنٌ وَ خَلَّفَ وُلْداً رِجَالًا وَ نِسَاءً وَ صِبْيَاناً فَجَاءَ رَجُلٌ مِنْهُمْ فَقَالَ أَنْتَ فِي حِلٍّ مِمَّا لِأَبِي عَلَيْكَ مِنْ حِصَّتِي وَ أَنْتَ فِي حِلٍّ مِمَّا لِإِخْوَتِي وَ أَخَوَاتِي وَ أَنَا ضَامِنٌ لِرِضَاهُمْ عَنْكَ قَالَ تَكُونُ فِي سَعَةٍ مِنْ ذَلِكَ وَ حِلٍّ قُلْتُ فَإِنْ لَمْ يُعْطِهِمْ قَالَ كَانَ ذَلِكَ فِي عُنُقِهِ قُلْتُ فَإِنْ رَجَعَ الْوَرَثَةُ عَلَيَّ فَقَالُوا أَعْطِنَا حَقَّنَا فَقَالَ لَهُمْ ذَلِكَ فِي الْحُكْمِ الظَّاهِرِ فَأَمَّا بَيْنَكَ وَ بَيْنَ اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ فَأَنْتَ مِنْهَا فِي حِلٍّ إِذَا كَانَ الرَّجُلُ الَّذِي أَحَلَّ لَكَ يَضْمَنُ لَكَ عَنْهُمْ رِضَاهُمْ فَيَحْتَمِلُ الضَّامِنُ لَكَ قُلْتُ فَمَا تَقُولُ فِي الصَّبِيِّ لِأُمِّهِ أَنْ تُحَلِّلَ قَالَ نَعَمْ إِذَا كَانَ لَهَا مَا تُرْضِيهِ أَوْ تُعْطِيهِ قُلْتُ فَإِنْ لَمْ يَكُنْ لَهَا قَالَ فَلَا قُلْتُ فَقَدْ سَمِعْتُكَ تَقُولُ إِنَّهُ يَجُوزُ تَحْلِيلُهَا فَقَالَ إِنَّمَا أَعْنِي بِذَلِكَ إِذَا كَانَ لَهَا مَالٌ قُلْتُ فَالْأَبُ يَجُوزُ تَحْلِيلُهُ عَلَى ابْنِهِ فَقَالَ لَهُ مَا كَانَ لَنَا مَعَ أَبِي الْحَسَنِ <span class="bTxt">( عليه السلام )</span> أَمْرٌ يَفْعَلُ فِي ذَلِكَ مَا شَاءَ قُلْتُ فَإِنَّ الرَّجُلَ ضَمِنَ لِي عَنْ ذَلِكَ الصَّبِيِّ وَ أَنَا مِنْ حِصَّتِهِ فِي حِلٍّ فَإِنْ مَاتَ الرَّجُلُ قَبْلَ أَنْ يَبْلُغَ الصَّبِيُّ فَلَا شَيْءَ عَلَيْهِ قَالَ الْأَمْرُ جَائِزٌ عَلَى مَا شَرَطَ لَكَ .
Translation
Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from Ibn Fazal, from Al Hassan Bin Al Jaham who said, ‘I asked Abu Al-Hassan<sup>asws</sup> about a man who died and for him upon me was debt, and he left behind parents, men and women, and young children. So a man from among them came over and said, ‘You are free from what my father had upon you, from my share, and you are (also) free from what is for my brothers and my sisters, and I am responsible for their pleasure about you’. He<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘You are at ease from that and free’. I said, ‘But if he does not give them?’ He<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘That would be upon his neck’. I said, ‘So if the inheritors return to me so they say, ‘Give us our right’?’ So he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘That is for them in the apparent judgement. So, as for what is between you and Allah<sup>azwj</sup> Mighty and Majestic, so you are free from it, since the man who freed you took the responsibility for you about their pleasure. Thus, the guarantor would be carrying for you’. I said, ‘So what are you<sup>asws</sup> saying with regards to the child and its mother if she frees (on his behalf)?’ He<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘Yes, if she had what it would take to make him agree, or give him’. I said, ‘But what if she does not happen to have anything?’ He<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘Then, it is no’. I said, ‘But I heard you<sup>asws</sup> saying that her freeing is allowed?’ So he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘But rather, I<sup>asws</sup> meant that if she had wealth for herself’. I said, ‘So can a father take such responsibility for his son?’ So he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘For him is what was for us<sup>asws</sup> with Abu Al-Hassan<sup>asws</sup>, a matter he<sup>asws</sup> did with regards to that whatever he<sup>asws</sup> so desired to’. I said, ‘The man guaranteed to me about that child, and I am free from his share. So if the man were to die before the child becomes an adult, so there is nothing upon him’. He<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘The matter is allowed upon whatever he stipulated for you’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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