Al-Kāfi - The Book of Inheritance

Al-Kāfi - The Book of Inheritance Chapter: Inheritance of People Drowned and because of the Collapse of a Structure on them ِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ أَحْ٠َّادِ بْنِ عِيسَى عَنِ الْحُسَيْنِ بْنِ الْ٠ُخْتَارِ قَالَ قَالَ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللهِ (عَلَيْهِ السَّلا٠) لأبِي حَنِيفَةَ يَا أَبَا حَنِيفَةَ ٠َا تَقُولُ فِي بَيْتٍ سَقَطَ عَلَى قَوْ٠ْ صَبِيَّانِ أَحَدُهُ٠َا حُرٌّ وَالآخَرُ ٠ْلُوكٌ لِصَاحِبِهِ فَلَ٠ْ يُعْرَفِ الْحُرُّ ٠ْلُوكِ فَقَالَ أَبُو حَنِيفَةَ يُعْتَقُ نِصْفُ هَذَا وَيُعْتَقُ نِصْفُ هَذَا وَيُقْسَ٠َا فَقَالَ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللهِ (عَلَيْهِ السَّلا٠) لَيْسَ كَذَلِكَ وَلَكِنَّهُ يُقْرَعُ بَيْنَهُ٠َنْ أَصَابَتْهُ الْقُرْعَةُ فَهُوَ حُرٌّ وَيُعْتَقُ هَذَا فَيُجْعَلُ ٠7.

A number of our people have narrated from Ahmad ibn Muhammad from Muhammad ibn ’Isma‘il from Hammad ibn ‘Isa from al- Husayn ibn al-Mukhtar who has narrated the following: “Once abu ‘Abd Allah (a.s.), said to abu Hanifah, ‘O abu Hanifah, what do you say about the case of a people who all die because of the fall of a house?

Only two children remain, of whom one is free and the other is a slave of his companion but it is not known which is which’ Abu Hanifah said, ‘One-half of this and one-half of this is set free and the asset must be divided between the two.’ Abu ‘Abd Allah (a.s.), said, ‘It is not as that.

By means of raffle whoever ’s name comes out is free and this one is set free to become the Mawla ’ (master) for him.’” وثق - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (3/205))