Al-Kafi 14341

Translation

Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Al Husayn Bin Musa, from Muhammad Bin Al Sabbah, from onoe of our companions who said, ‘Al-Rabie came over to Abu Ja’far Al-Mansour and he was the caliph, during him being in the circumambulation. So he said to him, ‘O commander of the faithful! So and so slave of yours died last night, so and so slave of yours cut-off his head after his death’. So he was fuming and angry, and said to Ibn Shabrama, and Ibn Abu Layli, and a number who were with him, from the judges, ‘What are you all saying regarding this?’ So all of them said, ‘There is nothing with us with regards to this, anything’. So he repeated the question regarding this, and he was saying, ‘Shall I kill him or not?’ So they said, ‘There is nothing with us with regards to this, anything’. He (the narrator) said, ‘So, one of them said to him, ‘At the moment a man has set foot here, so if there was anyone who had anything with regards to this, the answer would be with him^asws, and he^asws is Ja’far^asws Bin Muhammad^asws, and he^asws has entered into (performance of) <span class="iTxt">Al-Sa’ee</span>’. So he said to Al-Rabie, ‘Go to him^asws, and say to him^asws, ‘Had we not know what you^asws are occupied in, we would have asked you^asws to come over, but answer us regarding such and such’. He (the narrator) said, ‘So Al-Rabie went over, and he^asws was at Al-Marwa. So he delivered the message to him^asws. So Abu Abdullah^asws said to him: ‘You have seen what I^asws am occupied in, and in front of you are the judges and the scholars, so ask them’. So he said to him^asws, ‘He has asked them, and there did not happen to with anything with them regarding it’. So he^asws responded (similarly) to him. So he said, ‘I ask you^asws only to answer us with regards to it, for there is nothing with the people regarding this’. So Abu Abdullah^asws said: ‘Until after I^asws are free from what I^asws am occupied in (<span class="iTxt">Al-Sa’ee</span>)’. He (the narrator) said, ‘So when he^asws was free, he^asws came and sat by the side of the Sacred Masjid. He^asws said to Al-Rabie: ‘Go and say to him, ‘Upon him is (wergild of) one hundred Dinars’. So he delivered that. So they said, ‘Ask him^asws how it came to be one hundred Dinars upon him’. So Abu Abdullah^asws said: ‘With regards to the seed is twenty, and regarding the clot is twenty, and regarding the lump is twenty, and regarding the bone is twenty, and regarding the flesh is twenty. The it grows to another creation, and this deceased is at its status, before the spirit has been Blown into it, in the belly of its mother, as a foetus’. He (the narrator) said, ‘So he returned to him and informed him of the answer. So that astounded them, and they said, ‘Return to him^asws, and ask him^asws about the Dinars, for who it is to be, for his (of the decapitated deceased) inheritors or not?’ So Abu Abdullah^asws said: ‘There is not for his inheritors, anything. But rather this is a thing which came upon him in his body after his death. It would be (utilised for) performing Hajj on his behalf, or given in charity by it on his behalf, or it would be made to be in a way from the ways of the goodness’. He (the narrator) said, ‘The man claimed that the messenger returned (many a time), so Abu Abdullah^asws answered regarding it with thirty-six questions, and the man did not memorise except to the measurement of this answer’.

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