Al-Kafi 13500

Translation

Ibn Mahboub, from Ibn Raib, from Abu Baseer, (It has been narrated) from Abu Ja’far^asws, said, ‘I asked him^asws about a Muslim man who died and for him was a Christian mother, and for him was a Muslim wife and a Muslim child. So he^asws said: ‘If the mother becomes a Muslim before the distribution of his inheritance, give her the one-sixth’. I said, ‘So if there did not happen to be a wife for him nor a child, nor any inheritor for him from the Muslims, with a legislated share in the Book (Quran), and his mother is a Christian, and for him are Christian relatives, from the ones who dont have for them a legislated share in the Book had they been Muslims. For whom would the inheritance be?’ He^asws said: ‘If the mother becomes a Muslim, then the entirety of the inheritance is for her, and if his mother does not become a Muslim, and some of his relatives become Muslim, from the ones who have a legislated share in the Book, so the inheritance would be for him. And if no one from his relatives becomes Muslim, so his inheritance is for the Imam^asws’.

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