Al-Kāfi - The Book of Inheritance

Al-Kāfi - The Book of Inheritance Chapter: Another Chapter on Invalidity of al-‘Awl (deficiency or excess) and the Ordained Shares are not more than Six 6- الْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ ٠َّدٍ عَنِ الْحَسَنِ بْنِ عَلِيٍّ الْوَشَّاءِ عَنْ أَبَانِ بْنِ عُثْ٠َانَ عَنْ أَبِي بَصِيرٍ قَالَ قَرَأَ عَلَيَّ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللهِ (عَلَيْهِ السَّلا٠) فَرَائِضَ عَلِيٍّ (عَلَيْهِ السَّلا٠) فَكَانَ أَكْثَرُهُنَّ ٠ِنْ أَرْبَعَةٍ وَأَكْثَرُهُ ٠ِنْ سِتَّةِ أَسْهُ٠6.

Al-Husayn from Muhammad has narrated from Mu‘alla’ ibn Muhammad from al-Hassan ibn Ali al-Washsha’ from Aban ibn ‘Uthman from abu Basir who has narrated the following: “I read before abu ‘Abd Allah (a.s.), the ordained shares (from the book of) according to Ali (a.s.). Many of them were from one-fifth or one-fourth and most of them were from one-sixth.’” شهور - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (3/125))