كَتَبْتُ إِلَى أَبِي الْحَسَنِ ( عليه السلام ) وَ سَأَلْتُهُ عَنِ امْرَأَةٍ آجَرَتْ ضَيْعَتَهَا عَشْرَ سِنِينَ عَلَى أَنْ تُعْطَى الْأُجْرَةَ فِي كُلِّ سَنَةٍ عِنْدَ انْقِضَائِهَا لَا يُقَدَّمُ لَهَا شَيْءٌ مِنَ الْأُجْرَةِ مَا لَمْ يَمْضِ الْوَقْتُ فَمَاتَتْ قَبْلَ ثَلَاثِ سِنِينَ أَوْ بَعْدَهَا هَلْ يَجِبُ عَلَى وَرَثَتِهَا إِنْفَاذُ الْإِجَارَةِ إِلَى الْوَقْتِ أَمْ تَكُونُ الْإِجَارَةُ مُنْتَقِضَةً بِمَوْتِ الْمَرْأَةِ فَكَتَبَ ( عليه السلام ) إِنْ كَانَ لَهَا وَقْتٌ مُسَمًّى لَمْ يَبْلُغْ فَمَاتَتْ فَلِوَرَثَتِهَا تِلْكَ الْإِجَارَةُ فَإِنْ لَمْ تَبْلُغْ ذَلِكَ الْوَقْتَ وَ بَلَغَتْ ثُلُثَهُ أَوْ نِصْفَهُ أَوْ شَيْئاً مِنْهُ فَيُعْطَى وَرَثَتُهَا بِقَدْرِ مَا بَلَغَتْ مِنْ ذَلِكَ الْوَقْتِ إِنْ شَاءَ اللَّهُ .
Translation
A number of our companions, from Sahl Bin Ziyad and Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from Ali Bin Mahziyar, from Ibrahim Bin Muhammad Al Hamdany and Muhammad Bin Ja’far Al Raaz, from Muhammad Bin Isa, from Ibrahim Al Hamdany who said, ‘I wrote to Abu Al Hassan<sup>asws</sup> and asked him<sup>asws</sup> about a woman who rented out her place for twenty years upon a stipulation that she would be given the rent during every year of its term, nothing would proceed to her from the rent for as long as the time has not expired. So she died three years before or after it. Is it obligated upon her inheritors for enforcing the rent up to the time, or would the rent become lapsed by the death of the woman?’ So he<sup>asws</sup> wrote: ‘If it was a specified time for her which had not yet reached and she died, so that rent would be for her inheritors. So if that time had not yet reached, and a third of it had, or half of it, or something from it, so her inheritors would be given in accordance with whatever had reached from that time (onwards), Allah<sup>ajwj</sup> Willing’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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