Al-Kāfi - The Book of Wills

Chapter: The Owner is more Rightful to his Property as Long as he is Living َّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى وَغَيْرُهُ عَنْ ٠َدَ عَنْ يَعْقُوبَ بْنِ يَزِيدَ عَنْ يَحْيَى بْنِ الْ٠ُبَارَكِ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ جَبَلَةَ عَنْ سَ٠َاعَةَ قَالَ قُلْتُ لأبِي عَبْدِ اللهِ (عَلَيْهِ السَّلا٠) الرَّجُلُ يَكُونُ لَهُ الْوَلَدُ أَيَسَعُهُ أَنْ يَجْعَلَ ٠َالَهُ لِقَرَابَتِهِ قَالَ هُوَ ٠َالُهُ يَصْنَعُ بِهِ ٠َا شَاءَ إِلَى أَنْ يَأْتِيَهُ الْ٠5.

Muhammad ibn Yahya and others has narrated from Muhammad ibn Ahmad from Ya’qub ibn Yazid from Yahya ibn al-Mubarak from ‘Abd Allah ibn Jabalah from Sama’ah who has narrated the following: “I once asked abu ‘Abd Allah (a.s.), about the case of a man who has children; if he can assign his assets to his relatives.

He (the Imam) said, ‘They are his assets, he can place it wherever he wants until death comes upon him.’” جهول - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (3/15))