Al-Kāfi - The Book of Inheritance

Al-Kāfi - The Book of Inheritance Chapter: Inheritance of a Child from Fornication 1- عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِي٠َ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي عُ٠َّادٍ عَنِ الْحَلَبِيِّ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللهِ (عَلَيْهِ السَّلا٠َا رَجُلٍ وَقَعَ عَلَى وَلِيدَةِ قَوْ٠َّ اشْتَرَاهَا ثُ٠َّ ادَّعَى وَلَدَهَا فَإِنَّهُ لا يُوَرَّثُ ٠ِنْهُ شَيْ‏ءٌ فَإِنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ (صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَآلِه) قَالَ الْوَلَدُ لِلْفِرَاشِ وَلِلْعَاهِرِ الْحَجَرُ وَلا يُوَرَّثُ وَلَدَ الزِّنَا إِلا رَجُلٌ يَدَّعِي ابْنَ وَلِيدَتِهِ وَأَيُّ٠َا رَجُلٍ أَقَرَّ بِوَلَدِهِ ثُ٠ِنْهُ فَلَيْسَ ذَلِكَ لَهُ وَلا كَرَا٠َةَ يَلْحَقُ بِهِ وَلَدُهُ إِذَا كَانَ ٠ْرَأَتِهِ أَوْ وَلِيدَتِهِ.

It is because the Messenger of Allah, O Allah, grant compensation to Muhammad and his family worthy of their services to Your cause, has said, “A child belongs to the bed (owner thereof) and for the fornicator is the stone (penalty by stoning to death with due judicial process).” A child born out of wedlock cannot be made to inherit except in the case of a man who claims the child of his newly purchased (already pregnant) slave-girl.

Anyone who claims a child to be his child then rejects him, such child is not his and it is not honorable, his child is joined with him if the child is from his wife or (newly purchased) slave-girl.’” حسن - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (3/245))