Al-Kafi 14626

Translation

Ali Bin Muhammad, from Ibrahim Bin Is’haq Al Ahmar, from Isa Yusuf Bin Muhammad, a relative of Suweyd Bin saeed Al Amrany, from Suweyd Bin saeed, from Abdul Rahman Bin Ahmad Al Farsy, from Muhammad Bin Ibrahim Bin Abu Layli, from Al Haysam Bin Jameel, from zuheyr, from Abu Is’haq Al Sabi’e, from Aasim Bin Hamza Al Saluly who said, ‘I heard a boy at Al-Medina and he was saying, ‘O Judge of the Judges! Judge between me and my mother!’ So Umar Bin Al-Khattab said to him, ‘O boy! Why are you supplicating against your mother?’ So he said, ‘O commander of the faithful! She bore me in her belly for nine months, and weaned me for two years. So when I grew up and recognised the good from the evil, and my right from my left, she expelled me and negated me and alleged that she did not recognise me’. So Umar said, ‘Where does your mother happen to be?’ He said, ‘In a tent of the clan of so and so’. So Umar said, ‘(Come) to me with the mother of the boy!’ So they came over with her, and with four brothers of hers, and forty (men) swearing on oath testifying for her, that she does not recognise the child, and that the boy is a claimant who is unjust and lewd (immoral), intending to shame her in her clan, and that this is a slave girl who is from Qureysh who had not married at all, and that she is with a seal of her Lord^azwj (a virgin)’. So Umar said, ‘O boy! What are you saying?’ So he said, ‘O commander of the faithful! By Allah^azwj! This is my mother who bore me in her belly for nine months, and weaned me for two years. So when I grew up and recognised the good from the evil, and my right from my left, she expelled me and negated me, and she claims that she does not recognise me’. So Umar said, ‘O you (woman)! What is this boy saying?’ So she said, ‘O commander of the faithful! By the One^azwj Who is Veiled by the Light, so no eye has seen Him^azwj, and right was Muhammad^saww, I do not recognise him nor do I know from which people he is, and he is a boy who is a claimant intending to shame me in my clam, and I am a slave girl from Qureysh, not being married at all, and I am with a seal from my Lord^azwj’. So Umar said, ‘Are there witnesses for you?’ So she said, ‘Yes, they are’. So the forty (men) swearing on oath, so they testified in the presence of Umar that the boy is a claimant intending to shame her in her clan, and there this is a slave girl from Qureysh, not having been married at all, and she is with a seal from her Lord^azwj’. So Umar said, ‘Seize this boy, and go with him to the prison until we ask about the witnesses. So if their testimonies was just, I will whip him with a legal penalty (<span class="iTxt">Hadd</span>) of the slanderer’. So they seized the boy went with him towards the prison. So they came across Amir Al-Momineen^asws in one of the roads. So the boy called out, ‘O cousin of Rasool-Allah^saww! I am an oppressed boy’, and he repeated the speech to him^asws which he had spoken with to Umar. Then he said, ‘And this Umar has ordered regarding me (to be sent) to the prison’. So Ali^asws said: ‘Return him to Umar’. So when they returned him, Umar said to them, ‘I ordered with him to the prison, and you have returned him to me?’ So they said, ‘O commander of the faithful! Ali^asws Bin Abu Talib^asws ordered us that the be returned to you, and we heard you, and you were saying, ‘Do not disobey to Ali^asws in any matter’. So whilst they were in that, Ali^asws came over. So he^asws said: ‘(send to) me with the mother of the boy’. So they came over with her. So Ali^asws said: ‘O boy, what are you saying?’ So he repeated the speech. So Ali^asws said to Umar: ‘Do you permit me^asws that I^asws judge between them?’ So Umar said, ‘Glory be to Allah^azwj! And how (can it be) no, and I have heard Rasool-Allah^saww saying: ‘The most knowledgeable of you all is Ali^asws Bin Abu Talib^asws’. Then he^asws said to the woman: ‘O you (woman)! Are there witnesses for you?’ She said, ‘Yes’. So the forty (men) swearing on oath testified with the first testimony. So Ali^asws said: ‘I^asws shall judge today with a judgement between you two, being the Pleasure of the Lord^azwj from above His^azwj Throne, which my^asws beloved Rasool-Allah^saww had taught me^asws’. Then he^asws said to her: ‘Is there a guardian for you?’ She said, ‘Yes, they are, my brothers’. So he^asws said to her brothers: ‘My^asws order regarding you and regarding your sister is allowed?’ So they said, ‘Yes, O cousin of Muhammad^saww, your^asws order regarding us and regarding our sister is allowed’. So Ali^asws said: ‘I^asws am keeping Allah^azwj as a Witness, and the ones who are present from the Muslims, that I^asws hereby marry this boy to this slave girl, with (a dower of) four hundred Dirhams, and the cash is from my^asws wealth. O Qanbar! To me^asws with the Dirhams!’ So Qanbar came over with it. So He^asws placed it in the hands of the boy, and said: ‘Take it, and place it in the lap of your wife, and do not come to us except with you are the effects of the marriage, meaning the washing’. So the boy stood up and placed the Dirhams in the lap of the woman, then addressed her, so he said to her, ‘Stand up’. So the woman called out, ‘The Fire! The Fire! O cousin of Muhammad^saww, are you^asws intending to marry me to this son of mine? By Allah^azwj this is my son. My brothers married me off to a half-caste, so I gave birth to this boy from him. So when he grew up and became a youth, they ordered me that I should deny him and expel him, this, by Allah^azwj, (he) is my son, and my heart regrets over my son’. He (the narrator) said: ‘Then she grabbed the hand of the boy and went with him, and Umar called out: ‘Woe unto Umar! Had it not been for Ali^asws, Umar would be destroyed!’

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