Al-Kāfi - Volume 7

Author: Shaykh Muḥammad b. Yaʿqūb b. Isḥāq al-Kulaynī (d. 329 AH)

Translator: Shaykh Muhammad Sarwar

The Book of Wills 1. The Will and What it Must Consist of 2. The Witness for the Will 3. A Man Makes a Will and Appoints an Executor but he Refuses to Accept it 4. The Owner is more Rightful to his Property as Long as he is Living 5. Making a Will for the Heir 6. The Matters for which one can Make a Will and what is Preferable in the Issue 7. Another Chapter 8. A Man Makes a Will, then Cancels it 9. If the Beneficiary of a Will dies before the Death of the Testator or before Taking Possession 10. Executing the Will as it Requires 11. Another Chapter 12. Another Chapter 13. A Will for Setting free Slaves, Charity or al-Hajj 14. The Executor of the Will must Correct the Possible Violation of the Law in the Will 15. An Executor of the Will is held Responsible for Changing a Lawful Will 16. Al-Mudabbar (the Slave for whose Freedom Death of the Master is a Condition) is from One Third of the Legacy 17. First the Shroud, then Debts, then Will is paid for from the Legacy 18. The Will and Debts 19. One Who Sets Free a Slave and He is Indebted 20. The Will about a Contracted Slave 21. The Will of Immature Boys and Girls, the Lawful and Unlawful Matters in it 22. Will in Favor of Mothers of Children 23. The Matters Permissible in Endowment, Charity, Gift, Present, Providing Conditional Housing and Matters Permissible or otherwise for a Child and others 24. The Will for a Part of One’s Assets 25. The Will about Something of One’s Legacy 26. The Will about a Share of One’s Legacy 27. One in His Illness Confesses His Indebtedness to One of his Heirs 28. When certain ones of the Heirs Confirm Freeing of a Slave or Debts 29. The Case of One Who Leaves very Little Legacy with a Larger Amount of Debt and Dependents 30. Another Chapter 31. The Adults whose Will is not Acceptable 32. Distribution of What is Bequeathed To Relatives 33. The Case of one who Makes a Bequest for an Adult with whom a Child must Share 34. The Case of One’s Appointing Two Executors for the Will, Each of whom Deals with a Certain Portion of the Legacy 35. Charities of the Holy Prophet, O Allah, grant compensation to Muhammad and his family worthy of their services to Your cause, Fatimah and ‘A’immah, ‘Alayhim al-Salam 36. Things that Reach a Deceased after his Death 37. The Rare Ahadith 38. The Case of One who Dies without a Will, Leaves behind Small Heirs and it is Sold upon Him 39. The Executor of the Will Hands over the Assets of Children who were Small, now Adults, but they Refuse to Take Charge, the Children who Become Adults but are not Found to be of Proper Understanding, the Limit of Adulthood The Book of Inheritance 1. The Ordained Shares 2. The Legacy Comes from the Share of the One Nearest in Relationship to Him and that the Owner of Ordained Share is more Deserving than those who do not have any Ordained Share 3. Obligations are not Fulfilled without the Sword 4. The Rare Ahadith 5. Invalidity of Deficiency (in the Ordained Shares) 6. Another Chapter on Invalidity of al-‘Awl (deficiency or excess) and the Ordained Shares are not more than Six 7. Knowing to Avoid Deficiency 8. With the Existence of a Child and Parents no one Else Inherits Except a Husband and Wife 9. The Reason Why Ordained Shares are not more than Six 10. The Reason Why a Male’s Share is Twice the Share of a Female 11. The Legacy is Just for the Eldest Son 12. The Share of Children from the Legacy 13. The Share of Grandchildren in the legacy 14. Inheritance of Parents 15. Inheritance of Parents with Brothers and Sisters from the Father and Brothers and Sisters from the Mother 16. The Inheritance of a Son with both Parents 17. Inheritance of the Son, with Husband and Woman and Both Parents 18. Inheritance of Parents with Husband and Wife 19. AI-Kalalah (Burdensome one’s in Inheritance) 20. Inheritance of Brothers and Sisters with Children 21. Inheritance of the Grandfather 22. Brothers from a Mother with the Grandfather 23. Son of a Brother with a Grandfather 24. Inheritance of Relatives 25. A Woman Leaves Behind Just her Husband 26. A Deceased Leaves behind Just his Wife 27. Women do not Inherit Anything from Real Property 28. Dispute of Man and Woman over Household Items 29. The Rare Ahadith 30. Inheritance of a Boy and a Girl who are not yet Mature 31. The Inheritance of a Married and Mature Female before going to Bed 32. Inheritance of Women Divorced during Illness or without Illness 33. Inheritance of Relatives with Mawali 34. Inheritance of People Drowned and because of the Collapse of a Structure on them 35. Inheritance of People Killed, those who Inherit and those who do not Inherit from the Wergild 36. The Inheritance of a Killer 37. Inheritance of People of other Religions 38. Another Chapter on Inheritance of People of other Religions 39. The Inheritance of the People of Religion among them according to the Book of Allah and the Sunnah of His Holy Prophet 40. If a Deceased Leaves Behind Muslim and non-Muslim Heirs 41. Inheritance of Slaves 42. The Free and Slaves do not Inherit each other 43. Deceased leaves Behind One Free and One Owned Heir 44. Another Chapter 45. The Inheritance Due to Special Contract 46. Inheritance of an Apostate 47. Inheritance of One who is Lost 48. Inheritance of the Crying Newborn Child 49. Inheritance of Hermaphrodite 50. Another Chapter 51. Another Chapter 52. Another Chapter 53. Inheritance of the Child of Parents who Condemn Each other (al -Mula‘anah (condemnation)) 54. Another Chapter about the Child of Mula‘anah (condemnation) 55. Another Chapter 56. Inheritance of a Child from Fornication 57. Another Chapter 58. Another Chapter 59. The Case of a Child Carried away from his Birthplace ( al-Hamil ) 60. Confirming of Certain Heir a Debt 61. Another Chapter 62. One who Dies without Leaving Behind any Heirs 63. Another Chapter 64. The Guardianship of One who Sets One Free 65. Guardianship of Sa’ibah (Unconditionally Freed Slave) 66. Another Chapter The Book of Legal Penalties The Book of Compensations The Book of Testimony 1. The First Certificate that was Written on Earth 2. The Case of Man who is Summoned to Testify 3. Hiding the Testimony 4. The Case of a Man who hears a Testimony but does not Witness it 5. The Case of a Man who Forgets his Bearing Testimony but Recognizes his Handwriting 6. False Testimony 7. The Case of One who Testifies, then Retracts it 8. The Case of the Testimony of One Person and the Oath of the Plaintiff 9. Another Chapter 10. Presenting Testimony for the Creditors 11. Testimony of Children 12. Testimony of Slaves 13. That which is Acceptable of the Testimony of Women and that, which is not Acceptable 14. Testimony of Woman for her Husband and the Testimony of Man for his Wife 15. Testimony of a Father for his Son or a Son’s Testimony for his Father and Testimony of a brother for his Brother 16. Testimony of a Business Partner, one Wageworker and the Executor of the Will 17. The Witnesses who are Rejected 18. The Testimony of an Accuser and an Ex-convict 19. Testimony of the Members of all other Nations 20. Another Chapter 21. Testimony of a Blind and Speechless 22. A Man Bears Testimony against a Woman without Looking at Her Face 23. The Rare Ahadith The Book of Adjudication and Rules 1. The Authority to Govern Rests with the Imam Only 2. Kinds of Judges 3. The Case of one who Judges by Means of what is other than what Allah, most Majestic, most Glorious, has Revealed 4. One Who Issues Fatwa is Responsible 5. Accepting a Bribe for Issuing Judgments 6. Committing Injustice in Issuing a Judgment 7. The Undesirability of Sitting near the Unjust Judges 8. The Undesirability of Taking a case before the Unjust Judges 9. Adjudication Disciplines 10. Judgments must be Issued on the Basis of Testimony and Oath 11. Establishing Testimony is on the Plaintiff and Oath is on the Defendant 12. Complaint against a Deceased 13. One who Does not have Testimony, then Oath is Turned on Him 14. One who has Testimony there is no Oath on Him 15. If one Agrees with an Oath that is Taken, it Dismisses his Claim even if he has Testimony 16. The Case of Two People who Claim for Something Each one with Testimony 17. Another Chapter 18. Another Chapter 19. The Rare Ahadith The Book of Oaths, Vows and Expiations 1. The Undesirability of Swearing 2. The False Oath 3. Another Chapter 4. An Oath is not Valid except by Allah, One who does not Agree with Allah is not of Allah 5. The Detestability of Swearing in the form of Denouncing Allah and His Messenger, O Allah, grant compensation to Muhammad and his family worthy of their services to Your cause 6. Kinds of Swearing 7. The Binding Consequence of Oath and Vows 8. The Meaningless Matters 9. The Case when one Takes an Oath, then Finds something Better 10. The Intention for an Oath 11. Tne must Take an Oath only for what He Knows 12. The Oath that Obligates one to Pay Expiation 13. Making an Exception in an Oath 14. It is not Permissible to take an Oath by anything other than by Allah, most Majestic, most Glorious 15. Making the People of the Book to take Oath 16. Kaffarah (expiation) for Swearing 17. Forming a Commitment 18. The Rare Ahadith