كَتَبَ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ حَمْزَةَ الْعَلَوِيُّ إِلَى أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ الثَّانِي ( عليه السلام ) مَوْلًى لَكَ أَوْصَى إِلَيَّ بِمِائَةِ دِرْهَمٍ وَ كُنْتُ أَسْمَعُهُ يَقُولُ كُلُّ شَيْءٍ هُوَ لِي فَهُوَ لِمَوْلَايَ فَمَاتَ وَ تَرَكَهَا وَ لَمْ يَأْمُرْ فِيهَا بِشَيْءٍ وَ لَهُ امْرَأَتَانِ أَمَّا إِحْدَاهُمَا فَبِبَغْدَادَ وَ لَا أَعْرِفُ لَهَا مَوْضِعاً السَّاعَةَ وَ الْأُخْرَى بِقُمَّ فَمَا الَّذِي تَأْمُرُنِي فِي هَذِهِ الْمِائَةِ دِرْهَمٍ فَكَتَبَ إِلَيْهِ انْظُرْ أَنْ تَدْفَعَ مِنْ هَذِهِ الدَّرَاهِمِ إِلَى زَوْجَتَيِ الرَّجُلِ وَ حَقُّهُمَا مِنْ ذَلِكَ الثُّمُنُ إِنْ كَانَ لَهُ وَلَدٌ فَإِنْ لَمْ يَكُنْ لَهُ وَلَدٌ فَالرُّبُعُ وَ تَصَدَّقْ بِالْبَاقِي عَلَى مَنْ تَعْرِفُ أَنَّ لَهُ إِلَيْهِ حَاجَةً إِنْ شَاءَ اللَّهُ .
Translation
A number of our companions, from Sahl Bin Ziyad and Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, altogether, from Ali Bin Mahziyar who said, ‘Muhammad Bin Hamza Al-Alawy wrote to Abu Ja’far<sup>asws</sup> the 2<sup>nd</sup>., ‘A friend of yours<sup>asws</sup> bequeathed to me with one hundred Dirhams, and I heard him saying, ‘Everything which is for me, so it is from my Master’. So he died and left it, and did not instruct anything with regards to it, and for him are two wives. As for one of them, so she is at Baghdad and I do not know of her whereabout at this time, and the other one is at Qum. So what is that which you<sup>asws</sup> are instructing me with regards to this one hundred Dirhams?’ So he<sup>asws</sup> wrote to him: ‘Look around to hand over from these Dirhams to the two wives of the man, and both their rights from that is the one-eighth, if there was a child for him. So if there was not child for him, so the quarter, and give in charity with the remainder upon the one whom you recognise that he is needy for it, Allah<sup>azwj</sup> Willing’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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