Al-Kāfi - The Book of Fasting

Chapter: The Case of One Who Owes Fasting of Two Consecutive Months but an Obstacle Prevents Him 9ـ عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِي٠َ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي عُ٠َيْرٍ عَنْ أَبَانِ بْنِ تَغْلِبَ عَنْ زُرَارَةَ قَالَ قُلْتُ لأَبِي جَعْفَرٍ (عَلَيْهِ السَّلاَ٠) رَجُلٌ قَتَلَ رَجُلاً فِي الْحَرَ٠ِ قَالَ عَلَيْهِ دِيَةٌ وَثُلُثٌ وَيَصُو٠ِنْ أَشْهُرِ الْحُرُ٠ِ وَيُعْتِقُ رَقَبَةً وَيُطْعِ٠ِسْكِيناً قَالَ قُلْتُ يَدْخُلُ فِي هَذَا شَيْ‏ءٌ قَالَ وَ٠َا يَدْخُلُ قُلْتُ الْعِيدَانِ وَأَيَّا٠ُ التَّشْرِيقِ قَالَ يَصُو٠ُهُ فَإِنَّهُ حَقٌّ لَزِ٠9.

Ali ibn Ibrahim has narrated from his father from Ibn Abi ‘Umayr from Aban ibn Taghlib from Zurarah who has said the following: “I once asked abu Ja‘far (a.s.), about a man who kills a man in the sacred area. He (the Imam) said, ‘He owes one full and a half blood money, wergild.

He fasts for two consecutive months of the sacred months, sets free a slave and feeds sixty destitute people.’ I then said, ‘What happens if something comes in between?’ He (the Imam) said, ‘Give an example.’ I said, ‘The two ‘Id and the days of tashriq (11, 12, and 13).’ He (the Imam) said, ‘He is required to fast because it is an established right on him.’” حسن - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (16/349))