قُلْتُ الْجَارِيَةُ ابْنَةُ كَمْ لَا تُسْتَصْبَى ابْنَةُ سِتٍّ أَوْ سَبْعٍ فَقَالَ لَا ابْنَةُ تِسْعٍ لَا تُسْتَصْبَى وَ أَجْمَعُوا كُلُّهُمْ عَلَى أَنَّ ابْنَةَ تِسْعٍ لَا تُسْتَصْبَى إِلَّا أَنْ يَكُونَ فِي عَقْلِهَا ضَعْفٌ وَ إِلَّا فَهِيَ إِذَا بَلَغَتْ تِسْعاً فَقَدْ بَلَغَتْ .
Translation
Ali, from his father, from Ibn Abu Umeyr, from a man, (It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup>, said, ‘I said, ‘The girl, when would she not be reckoned as a child, a girl of six or seven (years of age)?’ So he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘No, it is a girl of nine who would not be reckoned as a child, and all of them have formed a consensus upon that a girl of nine would not be reckoned as a child except if there happens to be a weakness in her intellect, or else, so when she reaches nine (years), so she has reached puberty’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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