كَتَبْتُ إِلَى أَبِي الْحَسَنِ ( عليه السلام ) أَسْأَلُهُ فِي رَجُلٍ أَوْصَى بِبَعْضِ ثُلُثِهِ مِنْ بَعْدِ مَوْتِهِ مِنْ غَلَّةِ ضَيْعَةٍ لَهُ إِلَى وَصِيِّهِ يَضَعُ نِصْفَهُ فِي مَوَاضِعَ سَمَّاهَا لَهُ مَعْلُومَةٍ فِي كُلِّ سَنَةٍ وَ الْبَاقِي مِنَ الثُّلُثِ يَعْمَلُ فِيهِ بِمَا شَاءَ وَ رَأَى الْوَصِيُّ فَأَنْفَذَ الْوَصِيُّ مَا أَوْصَى إِلَيْهِ مِنَ الْمُسَمَّى الْمَعْلُومِ وَ قَالَ فِي الْبَاقِي قَدْ صَيَّرْتُ لِفُلَانٍ كَذَا وَ لِفُلَانٍ كَذَا وَ لِفُلَانٍ كَذَا فِي كُلِّ سَنَةٍ وَ فِي الْحَجِّ كَذَا وَ كَذَا وَ فِي الصَّدَقَةِ كَذَا فِي كُلِّ سَنَةٍ ثُمَّ بَدَا لَهُ فِي كُلِّ ذَلِكَ فَقَالَ قَدْ شِئْتُ الْأَوَّلَ وَ رَأَيْتُ خِلَافَ مَشِيَّتِيَ الْأُولَى وَ رَأْيِي أَ لَهُ أَنْ يَرْجِعَ فِيهَا وَ يُصَيِّرَ مَا صَيَّرَ لِغَيْرِهِمْ أَوْ يَنْقُصَهُمْ أَوْ يُدْخِلَ مَعَهُمْ غَيْرَهُمْ إِنْ أَرَادَ ذَلِكَ فَكَتَبَ ( عليه السلام ) لَهُ أَنْ يَفْعَلَ مَا شَاءَ إِلَّا أَنْ يَكُونَ كَتَبَ كِتَاباً عَلَى نَفْسِهِ .
Translation
Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from Muhammad Bin Isa Bin Ubeyd, from Ja’far Bin Isa who said, ‘I wrote to Abu Al-Hassan<sup>asws</sup> asking him regarding a man who bequeathed with some of his one-third from after his death, from a yield placed for him, to an executor to place half of it in known places he had mentioned to him during every year, and the remained from the one-third he can act regarding it with whatever he so desires and the executor agrees with it. So the executor enforced what had been bequeathed to him from the known named, and said regarding the remainder, ‘I have rendered for so and so such and such (amount), and for so and so such and such (amount), in every year, and regarding the Hajj, such and such (amount), and regarding the charity such and such (amount) during every year. Then he changed with regards to all of that’, so he said, ‘I have decided that the first of what I view as being opposite of my first desires and views’. Is it for him that he retracts with regards to it, and give what he gives to others, or reduces them, or includes other along with them, if he so wants that?’ So he<sup>asws</sup> wrote: ‘It is for him that he does whatever he so desires to, except if there happens to be a written agreement upon himself’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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