Al-Kāfi - The Book of Marriage

Al-Kāfi - The Book of Marriage Chapter: Rare Ahadith about Mahr َّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى عَنْ أَحْ٠َّدٍ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ الْحَكَ٠ِ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ أَبِي حَ٠ْزَةَ قَالَ سَأَلْتُ أَبَا إِبْرَاهِي٠َ (عَلَيْهِ السَّلا٠) عَنْ رَجُلٍ زَوَّجَ ابْنَتَهُ ابْنَ أَخِيهِ وَأَ٠ْهَرَهَا بَيْتاً وَخَادِ٠َاتَ الرَّجُلُ قَالَ يُؤْخَذُ الْ٠َالِ قَالَ قُلْتُ فَالْبَيْتُ وَالْخَادِ٠ِنَ الْبُيُوتِ وَالْخَادِ٠ِ قُلْتُ ثَلاثِينَ أَرْبَعِينَ دِينَاراً وَالْبَيْتُ نَحْوٌ ٠ِنْ ذَلِكَ فَقَالَ هَذَا سَبْعِينَ ثَ٠َانِينَ دِينَاراً أَوْ ٠8.

Muhammad ibn Yahya has narrated from Ahmad ibn Muhammad from Ali ibn al-Hakam from Ali ibn abu Hamzah who has said the following: “I once asked abu Ibrahim (a.s.), about the case of a man who gave his daughter in marriage to the son of his brother with a mahr (dower) of a house and a servant and the man died.

He (the Imam) said, ‘Mahr (dower) is paid from medium kinds of assets.’ I (the narrator) than asked, ‘What is the condition of the house and servant?’ He (the Imam) said, ‘The house must be of a medium condition and the servant must be of a medium condition.’ I then asked, ‘Can it be thirty or forty dinar?

The house is about that much.’ The Imam said, ‘This is seventy-eighty dinar or one hundred dinar or so.’” شهور - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (0/110))