سَأَلْتُ أَبَا جَعْفَرٍ الثَّانِيَ ( عليه السلام ) عَنْ دَارٍ كَانَتْ لِامْرَأَةٍ وَ كَانَ لَهَا ابْنٌ وَ ابْنَةٌ فَغَابَ الِابْنُ بِالْبَحْرِ وَ مَاتَتِ الْمَرْأَةُ فَادَّعَتِ ابْنَتُهَا أَنَّ أُمَّهَا كَانَتْ صَيَّرَتْ هَذِهِ الدَّارَ لَهَا وَ بَاعَتْ أَشْقَاصاً مِنْهَا وَ بَقِيَتْ فِي الدَّارِ قِطْعَةٌ إِلَى جَنْبِ دَارِ رَجُلٍ مِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا وَ هُوَ يَكْرَهُ أَنْ يَشْتَرِيَهَا لِغَيْبَةِ الِابْنِ وَ مَا يَتَخَوَّفُ مِنْ أَنْ لَا يَحِلَّ لَهُ شِرَاؤُهَا وَ لَيْسَ يُعْرَفُ لِلِابْنِ خَبَرٌ فَقَالَ لِي وَ مُنْذُ كَمْ غَابَ فَقُلْتُ مُنْذُ سِنِينَ كَثِيرَةٍ فَقَالَ يُنْتَظَرُ بِهِ غَيْبَتُهُ عَشْرَ سِنِينَ ثُمَّ يُشْتَرَى فَقُلْتُ لَهُ فَإِذَا انْتُظِرَ بِهِ غَيْبَتُهُ عَشْرَ سِنِينَ يَحِلُّ شِرَاؤُهَا قَالَ نَعَمْ .
Translation
A number of our companions, from Sahl Bin Ziyad, from Ali Bin Mahziyar who said, ‘I asked Abu Ja’far<sup>asws</sup> the 2<sup>nd</sup> - about a house which belonged to a woman, and had a son and a daughter. The son disappeared in the sea, and the woman died, so she left (behind) her daughter. So her daughter claimed that when she was small, her mother had made this house to be for her, and then she sold parts from it, and there remained a part in the house by the side of a house of a man from our companions and he disliked buying it due to the disappearance of the son, and what made him fear that it might not be Permissible for him to buy it, and there is no new of the son (who had disappeared in the sea). So he<sup>asws</sup> said to me: ‘And since how long has he been absent?’ So I said, ‘Since many years’. So he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘He should wait with it after his absence for ten years, then he should buy it’. So I said to him<sup>asws</sup>, ‘So if one were to wait with it after his absence of ten years, it is Permissible to buy it?’ He<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘Yes’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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