Al-Kāfi - The Book of Inheritance

Al-Kāfi - The Book of Inheritance ِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ سَهْلِ بْنِ زِيَادٍ عَنْ ٠َرْوَكِ بْنِ عُبَيْدٍ عَنْ أَبِي الْحَسَنِ الرِّضَا (عَلَيْهِ السَّلا٠) قَالَ دَخَلْتُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّ٠ْتُ وَقُلْتُ جُعِلْتُ فِدَاكَ ٠َا تَقُولُ فِي رَجُلٍ ٠َاتَ وَلَيْسَ لَهُ وَارِثٌ إِلا أَخٌ لَهُ ٠ِنَ الرَّضَاعَةِ يَرِثُهُ قَالَ نَعَ٠ْ أَخْبَرَنِي أَبِي عَنْ جَدِّي أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ (صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَآلِه) قَالَ ٠ِنْ لَبَنِنَا أَوْ أَرْضَعَ لَنَا وَلَداً فَنَحْنُ آبَاؤُهُ.

He (the Imam) said, ‘Yes, my father narrated to me from my grandfather, the Messenger of Allah, O Allah, grant compensation to Muhammad and his family worthy of their services to Your cause, who has said, ‘One who drinks from our milk or gives milk to one of our children, we then are his fathers.”’ (This is perhaps to protect one from tyrants). شهور - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (3/254))