5749 - وَ كَتَبَ اَلرِّضَا عَلَيْهِ اَلسَّلاَمُ إِلَى مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ سِنَانٍ فِيمَا كَتَبَ مِنْ جَوَابِ مَسَائِلِهِ : "عِلَّةُ اَلْمَرْأَةِ أَنَّهَا لاَ تَرِثُ مِنَ اَلْعَقَارَاتِ شَيْئاً إِلاَّ قِيمَةَ اَلطُّوبِ وَ اَلنِّقْضِ لِأَنَّ اَلْعَقَارَ لاَ يُمْكِنُ تَغْيِيرُهُ وَ قَلْبُهُ وَ اَلْمَرْأَةُ قَدْ يَجُوزُ أَنْ يَنْقَطِعَ مَا بَيْنَهَا وَ بَيْنَهُ مِنَ اَلْعِصْمَةِ وَ يَجُوزُ تَغْيِيرُهَا وَ تَبْدِيلُهَا وَ لَيْسَ اَلْوَلَدُ وَ اَلْوَالِدُ كَذَلِكَ لِأَنَّهُ لاَ يُمْكِنُ اَلتَّفَصِّي مِنْهُمَا وَ اَلْمَرْأَةُ يُمْكِنُ اَلاِسْتِبْدَالُ بِهَا فَمَا يَجُوزُ أَنْ يَجِيءَ وَ يَذْهَبَ كَانَ مِيرَاثُهُ فِيمَا يَجُوزُ تَبْدِيلُهُ وَ تَغْيِيرُهُ إِذْ أَشْبَهَهُمَا وَ كَانَ اَلثَّابِتُ اَلْمُقِيمُ عَلَى حَالِهِ كَمَنْ كَانَ مِثْلَهُ فِي اَلثَّبَاتِ وَ اَلْقِيَامِ".
Hadith.5749 - Imam Ali ibn Musa Ar-Ridha 
wrote to Muhammad ibn Sinan in response to his questions: "The reason why a woman does not inherit anything from real estate except for the value of bricks and demolition materials is because real estate cannot be altered or transformed.
A woman may experience a severance of the marital bond, and she herself may change or be replaced. However, a child and a parent are not like that, for separation from them is not possible. A woman, on the other hand, can be replaced. Therefore, what is subject to coming and going, her inheritance is in what can be altered and changed, as it resembles her nature. What is permanent and remains as it is belongs to those who are similar in stability and permanence."
