And from Abu Abdullah -asws having said...

And from Abu Abdullah -asws having said: ‘The first of what the Momin would be Gifted with in his grave is that there would be Forgiveness for the ones who followed his funeral’. [45] وعن سدير قال: قال أبو عبد الله عليه السلام، ما يمنعك أن تعتق كل يوم نسمة؟ قلت: لا يحتمل ذلك مالي، قال، فقال، تطعم كل يوم رجلا مسلما؟ فقلت: موسرا أو معسرا؟ قال: إن الموسر قد يشتهي الطعام.

And from Sadeyr who said, ‘Abu Abdullah -asws said: ‘What prevents you from freeing a person every day?’ I said, ‘My wealth cannot bear that’. So he -asws said: ‘Can you feed a Muslim man every day?’ So I said: ‘A wealthy one or a poor one?’ He -asws said: ‘The wealthy (also) desire the food’. [46] وعن أبي جعفر عليه السلام أنه قال: إطعام مسلم يعدل [ عتق ] نسمة. And from Abu Ja’far -asws having said: ‘Feeding a Muslim equates to freeing a person’.

Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad Bin Isa, from Al Hassan Bin Mahboub, from Abbad Bin Suheyb, (It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah -asws regarding a man who omitted the extraction of his Zak ā t during his lifetime. So when the death presented itself to him, he counted the entirety of what he had omitted from what been Imposed upon him from the Zak ā t , then bequeathed that it be extracted and handed over to the one it is Obligated upon (to be handed over to)’.

He -asws said: ‘Allowed. That would be extracted from the entirety of the wealth. But rather, it would be at the status of a debt, had it been upon him. There would not be anything for the inheritors until what he had bequeathed with from the Zak ā t , is paid over’.