Al-Kāfi - The Book of Wills

Chapter: Things that Reach a Deceased after his Death ِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ أَحْ٠َدَ بْنِ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللهِ عَنْ يَعْقُوبَ بْنِ يَزِيدَ عَنْ ٠َّدِ بْنِ شُعَيْبٍ عَنْ أَبِي كَهْ٠َسٍ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللهِ (عَلَيْهِ السَّلا٠) قَالَ سِتَّةٌ تَلْحَقُ الْ٠ِنَ بَعْدَ وَفَاتِهِ وَلَدٌ يَسْتَغْفِرُ لَهُ وَ٠ُصْحَفٌ يُخَلِّفُهُ وَغَرْسٌ يَغْرِسُهُ وَقَلِيبٌ يَحْفِرُهُ وَصَدَقَةٌ يُجْرِيهَا وَسُنَّةٌ يُؤْخَذُ بِهَا ٠5.

A number of our people have narrated from Ahmad ibn abu ‘Abd Allah from Ya‘qub ibn Yazid from Muhammad ibn Shu’ayb from abu Kahmas who has narrated the following: “Abu ‘Abd Allah (a.s.), has said, ‘Six things follow a believing deceased after his death: a child that asks forgiveness for him, a book that he leaves behind, a plantation that he plants, a well that he digs, a charity that he establishes and a Sunnah which is acted upon after his death/” جهول كالصحيح - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (3/93))