Al-Kafi 13209

Translation

<span style="font-size: small">Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Safwan who said, ‘I asked Al Reza </span>^asws<span style="font-size: small">’; and Muhammad Bin Yahya, from ahmad Bin Muhammad, from Safwan and Ahmad Bin Muhammad Bin Abu Nasr who both said, </span> ‘We asked Abu Al-Hassan Al-Reza^asws about a man who bequeathed with a ‘portion’ from his wealth, and we do not know the ‘portion’, which this is it?’ So he^asws said: ‘Is there not with you among what has reached you neither from Ja’far^asws nor Abu Ja’far^asws anything with regards to it?’ We said to him^asws, ‘May we be sacrificed for you^asws! We have not hear our companions mentioning anything from this, from you^asws forefathers^asws’. So he^asws said: ‘The ‘portion’ is one from eight (1/8)’. So we said to him^asws, ‘May we be sacrificed for you^asws! How did it come to be one from eight?’ So he^asws said: ‘Have you nor read the Book of Allah^azwj Mighty and Majestic?’ I said, ‘May I be sacrificed for you^asws! I have read it, but I do not know in which place it is’. So he^asws said: ‘The Words of Allah^azwj Mighty and Majestic <span class="ibTxt"><a href="/#/books/quran:9#h60"><a href="/books/quran:9#h60">[9:60]</a></a> But rather, the charities are only for the poor and the needy, and the officials (appointed) over them, and those whose hearts are made to incline (to Truth) and the (ransoming of) captives and those in debts and in the Way of Allah and the wayfarer</span>’. Then he^asws made (the number) eight by his hand, and said: ‘And similarly, Rasool-Allah^saww divided it upon eight portions. Therefore, the ‘portion’ is one from eight’.

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