سَأَلْتُ أَبَا عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) عَنْ مَوْلُودٍ لَيْسَ لَهُ مَا لِلرِّجَالِ وَ لَا لَهُ مَا لِلنِّسَاءِ قَالَ يُقْرِعُ الْإِمَامُ أَوِ الْمُقْرِعُ بِهِ يَكْتُبُ عَلَى سَهْمٍ عَبْدَ اللَّهِ وَ عَلَى سَهْمٍ آخَرَ أَمَةَ اللَّهِ ثُمَّ يَقُولُ الْإِمَامُ أَوِ الْمُقْرِعُ اللَّهُمَّ أَنْتَ اللَّهُ لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا أَنْتَ عَالِمُ الْغَيْبِ وَ الشَّهَادَةِ أَنْتَ تَحْكُمُ بَيْنَ عِبَادِكَ فِيمَا كَانُوا فِيهِ يَخْتَلِفُونَ فَبَيِّنْ لَنَا أَمْرَ هَذَا الْمَوْلُودِ كَيْفَ يُوَرَّثُ مَا فَرَضْتَ لَهُ فِي الْكِتَابِ ثُمَّ يُطْرَحُ السَّهْمَانِ فِي سِهَامٍ مُبْهَمَةٍ ثُمَّ تُجَالُ السِّهَامُ عَلَى مَا خَرَجَ وُرِّثَ عَلَيْهِ .
Translation
A number of our companions, from Sahl Bin Ziyad and Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, altogether from Ibn Mahboub, from Ali Bin Raib, from Fuzeyl Bin Yasaar who said, ‘I asked Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup> about a child born, there was neither for him what is for the men, nor for him what is for the women. He<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘The Imam<sup>asws</sup> or the drawer of lots would draw lots. It would be written on one lot, ‘servant of Allah<sup>azwj</sup>’, and on another lot would be written, ‘maid of Allah<sup>azwj</sup>’. Then the Imam<sup>asws</sup> or the drawer of the lots would be saying: ‘O Allah<sup>azwj</sup>! You<sup>azwj</sup> are Allah<sup>azwj</sup>. There is no god except for You<sup>azwj</sup>, Knower of the unseen and the seen. You<sup>azwj</sup> Judge between Your<sup>azwj</sup> servants regarding what they used to be differing in. So Clarify for us the matter of this birth, how he should inherit what is Obligated for him in the Book (Quran)’. Then the two lots would be thrown in vague lots. Then the lots would be made upon what comes out, it would inherit upon it’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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