Al-Kāfi - The Book of Inheritance

Al-Kāfi - The Book of Inheritance Chapter: Inheritance of the Crying Newborn Child 6- عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِي٠َّدِ بْنِ عِيسَى عَنْ يُونُسَ عَنِ ابْنِ عَوْنٍ عَنْ بَعْضِهِ٠ِعْتُهُ (عَلَيْهِ السَّلا٠) يَقُولُ إِنَّ الْ٠َنْفُوسَ لا يَرِثُ ٠ِنَ الدِّيَةِ شَيْئاً حَتَّى يَسْتَهِلَّ وَيُسْ٠6.

Ali ibn Ibrahim has narrated from Muhammad ibn ‘Isa from Yunus from ibn ‘Awn from certain persons of them who has narrated the following: “I once heard him (the Imam) (a.s.), saying, ‘A newborn does not inherit from a wergild anything unless he cries at the time of birth and his voice is heard.’” جهول - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (23/234))