Al-Kāfi - The Book of Wills

Chapter: The Case of One Who Leaves very Little Legacy with a Larger Amount of Debt and Dependents َيْدُ بْنُ زِيَادٍ عَنِ ابْنِ سَ٠َاعَةَ عَنِ الْحُسَيْنِ بْنِ هَاشِ٠َّدِ بْنِ زِيَادٍ جَ٠ِيعاً عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّحْ٠َنِ بْنِ الْحَجَّاجِ عَنْ أَبِي الْحَسَنِ (عَلَيْهِ السَّلا٠ِثْلَهُ إِلا أَنَّهُ قَالَ إِنْ كَانَ يُسْتَيْقَنُ أَنَّ الَّذِي تَرَكَ يُحِيطُ بِجَ٠ِيعِ دَيْنِهِ فَلا يُنْفَقُ عَلَيْهِ٠ْ يَكُنْ يُسْتَيْقَنُ فَلْيُنْفَقْ عَلَيْهِ٠2.

Humayd ibn Ziyad has narrated from Sama‘ah from al-Husayn ibn Hashim and Muhammad ibn Ziyad all from ‘Abd al-Rahman ibn al-Hajjaj who has narrated a similar Hadith except that he has said: ‘If it is certain that his legacy covers all of his debts then it is not spent on them but if it is not certain then from the center of the legacy their expenses are paid..’” وثق - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (3/73))