كَتَبْتُ إِلَى أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ الثَّانِي ( عليه السلام ) أَسْأَلُ عَنْ أَرْضٍ أَوْقَفَهَا جَدِّي عَلَى الْمُحْتَاجِينَ مِنْ وُلْدِ فُلَانِ بْنِ فُلَانٍ وَ هُمْ كَثِيرٌ مُتَفَرِّقُونَ فِي الْبِلَادِ فَأَجَابَ ( عليه السلام ) ذَكَرْتَ الْأَرْضَ الَّتِي أَوْقَفَهَا جَدُّكَ عَلَى فُقَرَاءِ وُلْدِ فُلَانِ بْنِ فُلَانٍ وَ هِيَ لِمَنْ حَضَرَ الْبَلَدَ الَّذِي فِيهِ الْوَقْفُ وَ لَيْسَ لَكَ أَنْ تُتْبِعَ مَنْ كَانَ غَائِباً .
Translation
Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Muhammad Bin Ahmad, from Ahmad, from Musa Bin Ja’far, from Ali Bin Muhammad Bin Suleyman Al Nowfaly who said, ‘I wrote to Abu Ja’far<sup>asws</sup> the second, asking about a land which was dedicated by my grandfather upon the needy from the sons of so and son, and they were a lot of them, dispersed in the cities’. So he<sup>asws</sup> answered: ‘You mentioned the land which your grandfather had dedicated to the poor from the sons of so and so, and it is for the ones who are present in the city in which the dedicated (place) is, and it is not for you that you track down the ones who are absent’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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