Al-Kafi 9658

Translation

Abu Ali Al Ashary, form Muhammad Bin Abdul Jabbar, from Safwan, from Abdul Rahma Bin Al Hajjaj who said, ‘I asked Abu Abdullah^asws about the husband and the wife who both died. So the inheritors of the woman came over claiming the dower upon the inheritors of the man. So he^asws said: ‘They had both died and the inheritances had been distributed?’ So I said, ‘Yes’. So he^asws said: ‘There is nothing for them’. I said, ‘And if it was such that the woman was alive, so she goes over after the death of her husband to claim her dower?’ So he^asws said : ‘There is nothing for her, and she had stayed with him agreeably until her husband died’. So I said, ‘Supposing if she had died and he was alive, so her inheritors come over seeking her dower from him?’ So he^asws said: ‘She had stayed with him until he dies and did not seek it?’ I said, ‘Yes’. So he^asws said: ‘There is nothing for them’. I said, ‘Supposing he had divorced her, so she came over seeking her dower?’ He^asws said: ‘And she had stayed not seeking it until he divorced her, there is nothing for her’. I said, ‘So until where is a limit of that which, if she were to seek it, it would be for her?’ He^asws said: ‘If she had gifted it to him and entered his house, then she seeks it after that, so there is nothing for her. It is a lot (of time) for her if she were to make him swear an oath with Allah^azwj that there is nothing for her with him from her dower, neither little nor more’.

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