سَأَلْتُ الرِّضَا ( عليه السلام ) عَنْ رَجُلٍ حَضَرَهُ الْمَوْتُ فَأَوْصَى إِلَى ابْنِهِ وَ أَخَوَيْنِ شَهِدَ الِابْنُ وَصِيَّتَهُ وَ غَابَ الْأَخَوَانِ فَلَمَّا كَانَ بَعْدَ أَيَّامٍ أَبَيَا أَنْ يَقْبَلَا الْوَصِيَّةَ مَخَافَةَ أَنْ يَتَوَثَّبَ عَلَيْهِمَا ابْنُهُ وَ لَمْ يَقْدِرَا أَنْ يَعْمَلَا بِمَا يَنْبَغِي فَضَمِنَ لَهُمَا ابْنُ عَمٍّ لَهُمَا وَ هُوَ مُطَاعٌ فِيهِمْ أَنْ يَكْفِيَهُمَا ابْنَهُ فَدَخَلَا بِهَذَا الشَّرْطِ فَلَمْ يَكْفِهِمَا ابْنَهُ وَ قَدِ اشْتَرَطَا عَلَيْهِ ابْنَهُ وَ قَالَا نَحْنُ نَبْرَأُ مِنَ الْوَصِيَّةِ وَ نَحْنُ فِي حِلٍّ مِنْ تَرْكِ جَمِيعِ الْأَشْيَاءِ وَ الْخُرُوجِ مِنْهُ أَ يَسْتَقِيمُ أَنْ يُخَلِّيَا عَمَّا فِي أَيْدِيهِمَا وَ يَخْرُجَا مِنْهُ قَالَ هُوَ لَازِمٌ لَكَ فَارْفُقْ عَلَى أَيِّ الْوُجُوهِ كَانَ فَإِنَّكَ مَأْجُورٌ لَعَلَّ ذَلِكَ يَحُلُّ بِابْنِهِ .
Translation
A number of our companions, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad Bin Isa, from Sa’d Bin Ismail, from his father who said, ‘I asked Al-Reza<sup>asws</sup> about a man to whom death presented itself, so he bequeathed to his son and two brothers of his. The son witnessed his bequest and the two brothers were absent. So when it was after a few days they both refused to accept the executorships in fear that his son would pounce upon the two of them and they would not be able to act with what is befitting. So a cousin of theirs guaranteed to them both, and that he would be obedient among them, and that he would suffice for the two of them from his son. So they both entered into it with this condition, but his son did not refrain from the two of them, and it had been stipulated upon his son, and they both said, ‘We are free from the executorships, and we are to be excused from neglecting the entirety of the things and the exiting from it’. Is it correct for both of them that they absolve (excuse) themselves from what was in their hands and come out from it?’ He<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘It is necessary for you to join upon whichever aspect it was, for you would be recompensed, perhaps that would resolve (the matters) with his son’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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