Al-Kafi 13582

Translation

Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, and a number of our companions, from Sahl Bin Ziyad, from Al Hassan Bin Mahboub, from Abdul Rahman Bin Al Hajjaj who said, ‘I asked Abu Abdullah^asws about Al-Hameyl (brought from another land), so he^asws said: ‘And which thing is Al-Hameyl?’ So I said, ‘The woman is taken prisoner from her land, and with her is the young child. So she is saying, ‘He is my son’. And the man is taken prisoner so he meets his brother, so he is saying, ‘He is my brother’. And they are both recognised as such, and there is no proof for them both upon that except for their own words’. So he^asws said: ‘What are the ones before you saying’. I said, ‘They would not be inheriting each other because there does not happen to be any proof upon that. But rather, the birth was in the Polytheism’. He^asws said: ‘Glory be to Allah^azwj! (Allah^azwj is free from all defects) She comes with her son or her daughter with her, and she does not cease to accept it, and when he recognises his brother, and that was in good health from their two intellects, and they both do not cease accepting that, they would inherit each other’.

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