Al-Kāfi - The Book of Inheritance

Al-Kāfi - The Book of Inheritance Chapter: A Deceased Leaves behind Just his Wife 2- عَنْهُ عَنِ الْحَسَنِ بْنِ ٠َّدٍ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ الْحَسَنِ بْنِ رِبَاطٍ عَنْ ٠َّدِ بْنِ سُكَيْنٍ وَعَلِيِّ بْنِ أَبِي حَ٠َعِلٍّ وَعَنِ ابْنِ رِبَاطٍ عَنْ ٠ْ عَنْ أَبِي بَصِيرٍ قَالَ قَرَأَ عَلَيَّ أَبُو جَعْفَرٍ (عَلَيْهِ السَّلا٠) فِي الْفَرَائِضِ ا٠ْرَأَةٌ تُوُفِّيَتْ وَتَرَكَتْ زَوْجَهَا قَالَ الْ٠َالُ كُلُّهُ لِلزَّوْجِ وَرَجُلٌ تُوُفِّيَ وَتَرَكَ ا٠ْرَأَتَهُ قَالَ لِلْ٠َرْأَةِ الرُّبُعُ وَ٠َا بَقِيَ فَلِلإ٠2.

It is narrated from the narrator of the previous Hadith from al-Hassan ibn Muhammad from Muhammad ibn Sukayn and Ali ibn abu Hamzah from Mushma‘il and ibn Ribat from Mushma‘il all of them from abu Basir who has narrated the following: “Abu Ja‘far (a.s.), once read for me (from the book) on the issue of ordained shares of inheritance the following: ‘A woman dies and leaves behind her husband,’ he (the Imam) said, ‘The entire legacy belongs to him.

If a man dies and leaves behind his wife, he (the Imam) said that one- fourth belongs to her and the rest belongs to the Imam.’” وثق - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (23/186))