Al-Kafi 14432

Translation

Ahmad Bin Muhammad Al Asamy, from Ali Bin Al Hassan Al Maysami, from Ali Bin Asbaat, from his uncle Yaqoub Bin Salim, (It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah^asws having said: ‘There used to be a woman at Al-Medina to whom (visitors used to come to frequently). So the news of that reached Umar, so he sent a messenger to awe her and ordered that he should come with her to him. So the woman panicked, and she was seized by the pangs of childbirth. So she went to one of the rooms and gave birth to a boy. So the boy was alive but then died. So there entered upon him (Umar) dread of the woman and from the death of the boy, what Allah^azwj so Desired. So one from his gathering said, ‘O commander of the faithful! There is nothing upon you from this thing’. And one of the said, ‘And what is this (it is of no consequence)’. He (Umar) said, ‘Ask Abu Al-Hassan^asws’. So Abu Al-Hassan^asws said to them: ‘If you did your Ijtihaad you did not hit the truth, and if you spoke by your opinion, so you have erred’. Then he^asws said: ‘Upon you (Umar) is the (payment of the) wergild of the child’.

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