Al-Kāfi - The Book of Inheritance

Al-Kāfi - The Book of Inheritance Chapter: A Deceased Leaves behind Just his Wife ِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ سَهْلِ بْنِ زِيَادٍ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ أَسْبَاطٍ عَنْ خَلَفِ بْنِ حَ٠ُوسَى بْنِ بَكْرٍ عَنْ ٠ٍ عَنْ أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ (عَلَيْهِ السَّلا٠ْرَأَةً فَقَالَ لَهَا الرُّبُعُ وَتَدْفَعُ الْبَاقِيَ إِلَيْنَا. 5.

A number of our people have narrated from Sahl ibn Ziyad from Ali ibn Asbat from Khalaf ibn Hammad from Musa ibn Bakr from Muhammad ibn Muslim who has narrated the following: “About the case of a man who dies and leaves behind his wife, abu Ja‘far (a.s.), has said, ‘One-fourth belongs to her and the rest must be given to us.’” شهور - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (3/187))