قُلْتُ لَهُ جُعِلْتُ فِدَاكَ كَيْفَ صَارَ الرَّجُلُ إِذَا مَاتَ وَ وُلْدُهُ مِنَ الْقَرَابَةِ سَوَاءٌ تَرِثُ النِّسَاءُ نِصْفَ مِيرَاثِ الرِّجَالِ وَ هُنَّ أَضْعَفُ مِنَ الرِّجَالِ وَ أَقَلُّ حِيلَةً فَقَالَ لِأَنَّ اللَّهَ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ فَضَّلَ الرِّجَالَ عَلَى النِّسَاءِ بِدَرَجَةٍ وَ لِأَنَّ النِّسَاءَ يَرْجِعْنَ عِيَالًا عَلَى الرِّجَالِ .
Translation
Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Ismail Bin Marrar, from Yunus Bin Abdul Rahman, (It has been narrated) from Abu Al-Hassan Al-Reza<sup>asws</sup>, (the narrator says) ‘I said to him<sup>asws</sup>, ‘May I be sacrificed for you<sup>asws</sup>! How did it come to be such that when the man dies and his children are all equal in the relationship, (but) the women (the daughters of the deceased) inherit half the inheritance of the men (sons of the deceased), and they (women) are weaker than the men, and of less capabilities?’ So he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘Because Allah<sup>azwj</sup> Mighty and Majestic Preferred the men over the women with a level, and because the women return for the dependency upon the men’.
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