Al-Kafi 2039

Translation

Al Washha, from Ahmad Bin Aiz, from Abu Khadeeja, (It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah^asws having said: ‘A man came over to the Prophet^saww and he said, ‘There was a daughter born unto me, and I nourished her until when she became an adult, so I put some new clothes on her and some ornaments, then went with her to a well and pushed her into its middle (to kill her), and the last of what I heard from her was that she was saying, ‘O father ! So what is the expiation of that?’ He<sup style="font-weight: normal">saww</sup> said: ‘Is there a mother for you, alive?’ He said, ‘No’. He<sup style="font-weight: normal">saww</sup> said: ‘So for you there is a maternal aunt, alive?’ He said, ‘Yes’. He<sup style="font-weight: normal">saww</sup> said: ‘So be righteous with her, for she is at the status of the mother. It would expiate you from what you did’. Abu Khadeeja (the narrator) said, ‘So I said to Abu Abdullah<sup style="font-weight: normal">asws</sup>, ‘When was this?’ So he<sup style="font-weight: normal">asws</sup> said: ‘During the pre-Islamic period, and they used to kill the daughters fearing that they would be made captives, so they would give birth among other people’.

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