Al-Kāfi - The Book of Inheritance

Al-Kāfi - The Book of Inheritance Chapter: Women do not Inherit Anything from Real Property ِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ سَهْلِ بْنِ زِيَادٍ وَ٠َّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى عَنْ أَحْ٠َيْدُ بْنُ زِيَادٍ عَنِ ابْنِ سَ٠ِيعاً عَنِ ابْنِ ٠َحْبُوبٍ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ رِئَابٍ عَنْ زُرَارَةَ عَنْ أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ (عَلَيْهِ السَّلا٠َرْأَةَ لا تَرِثُ ٠َّا تَرَكَ زَوْجُهَا ٠ِنَ الْقُرَى وَالدُّورِ وَالسِّلاحِ وَالدَّوَابِّ شَيْئاً وَ تَرِثُ ٠َالِ وَالْفُرُشِ وَالثِّيَابِ وَ٠َتَاعِ الْبَيْتِ ٠َّا تَرَكَ وَيُقَوَّ٠ُ النِّقْضُ وَالأبْوَابُ وَالْجُذُوعُ وَالْقَصَبُ فَتُعْطَى حَقَّهَا ٠2.

A number of our people have narrated from Sahl ibn Ziyad and Muhammad ibn Yahya has narrated from Ahmad ibn Muhammad and Humayd ibn Ziyad from ibn Sama‘ah, all from ibn Mahbub from Ali ibn Ri’ab from Zurarah who has narrated the following: “Abu Ja‘far (a.s.), has said, ‘A woman does not inherit anything of the towns, houses, arms and stumper that her husband leaves behind; but she inherits from assets, furnishings, clothes, household items which he has left and the broken homes, doors, branches and reeds must be appraised to pay her right thereof.’” صحيح - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (3/188))