Al-Kafi 13475

Translation

A number of our companions, from Sahl Bin Ziyad and Muhammad Bin Yahya, from sahl Bin Ziyad and Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad and Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, altogether from Ibn Mahboub, from Hammad Bin Isa, from Sawwar, from Al Hassan who said, ‘When Ali^asws defeated Talha and Al-Zubeyr, the people faced their defeat, so they passed by a pregnant woman upon the road. So she panicked from them, and gave birth to what was in her belly, alive. So it (child) became restless until it died. Then its mother died from after it. So Ali^asws and his companions passed by her and she and her child were lying upon the road. So he^asws told them about her matter, so they said to him^asws, ‘But rather, she was pregnant, so she panicked when she saw the fighting and the defeat’. So he^asws asked them, ‘Which of the two died before its companion?’ So it was said, ‘Her son died before her’. He (the narrator) said, ‘So he^asws called her husband, father of the dead boy, so made him to inherit from his son, two-thirds of the wergild (blood money compensation), and her mother to inherit a third of the wergild. Then made the husband to inherit from his dead wife, half of the one-third wergild which she had inherited from her son, and made the relatives of the dead woman, the remainder (of the one-third wergild). Then made the husband to inherit as well from the wergild of the dead woman, half of the wergild, and it was two thousand and five hundred Dirhams, and made the relatives of the dead woman to inherit half of the wergild, and it was two thousand and five hundred Dirhams, and that is because there did not happen to be for her any child other than that which had been miscarried with when she panicked. He (the narrator) said, ‘And he^asws paid all of that from the Public Treasury of Al-Basra’.

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