سَأَلْتُ أَبَا عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) عَنِ امْرَأَةٍ اسْتَوْدَعَتْ رَجُلًا مَالًا فَلَمَّا حَضَرَهَا الْمَوْتُ قَالَتْ لَهُ إِنَّ الْمَالَ الَّذِي دَفَعْتُهُ إِلَيْكَ لِفُلَانَةَ فَمَاتَتِ الْمَرْأَةُ فَأَتَى أَوْلِيَاؤُهَا الرَّجُلَ فَقَالُوا لَهُ إِنَّهُ كَانَ لِصَاحِبَتِنَا مَالٌ لَا نَرَاهُ إِلَّا عِنْدَكَ فَاحْلِفْ لَنَا مَا لَنَا قِبَلَكَ شَيْءٌ أَ يَحْلِفُ لَهُمْ قَالَ إِنْ كَانَتْ مَأْمُونَةً عِنْدَهُ فَلْيَحْلِفْ وَ إِنْ كَانَتْ مُتَّهَمَةً عِنْدَهُ فَلَا يَحْلِفُ وَ يَضَعُ الْأَمْرَ عَلَى مَا كَانَ فَإِنَّمَا لَهَا مِنْ مَالِهَا ثُلُثُهُ.
Translation
Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from Al Husayn Bin Saeed, from Ali Bin Al Noman, from Abdullah Bin Muskan, from Ala’a Bayaa Al Sabiry who said, ‘I asked Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup> about a woman who entrusted a man with some wealth. So when the death preseted itself to her, she said to him, ‘The wealth which I had handed it over to you is for so and so woman’. So the woman died, and her guardians came over to the man so they said to him, ‘There used to be some wealth for our companion, but we do not see it except to be with you, therefore swear an oath for us that there is nothing for us with you, anything’. Should he swear for them?’ He<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘If she (the deceased) was trusted (by her guardians), so let him swear, and if she was an accused (by them) in his presence, so he should not swear, and he should place the matter upon what it used to be. But rather, for her, from her wealth, is a third’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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