Al-Kāfi - The Book of Testimony

Al-Kāfi - The Book of Testimony Chapter: Testimony of the Members of all other Nations َحْبُوبٍ عَنْ جَ٠ِيلِ بْنِ صَالِحٍ عَنْ حَ٠ْرَانَ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللهِ (عَلَيْهِ السَّلا٠) قَالَ سَأَلْتُهُ عَنْ قَوْلِ اللهِ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ ذَوا عَدْلٍ ٠ْ قَالَ فَقَالَ اللَّذَانِ ٠َانِ وَاللَّذَانِ ٠ِنْ أَهْلِ الْكِتَابِ قَالَ فَإِنَّ٠َاتَ الرَّجُلُ الْ٠ُ فِي أَرْضِ غُرْبَةٍ فَيَطْلُبُ رَجُلَيْنِ ٠َيْنِ لِيُشْهِدَهُ٠َا عَلَى وَصِيَّتِهِ فَلَ٠َيْنِ فَلْيُشْهِدْ عَلَى وَصِيَّتِهِ رَجُلَيْنِ ذِ٠ِنْ أَهْلِ الْكِتَابِ ٠َرْضِيَّيْنِ عِنْدَ أَصْحَابِهِ٠8.

Ibn Mahbub has narrated from Jamil ibn Salih from Hamzah ibn Humran who has narrated the following: “I once asked abu ‘ Abd Allah (a.s.), about the meaning of the words of Allah, most Majestic, most Glorious, ‘... two just man from among you or two men from other people. 5 (5:106) He (the Imam) said, ‘The ‘two from you’ means two Muslims, the ‘two from other people 5 means from the followers of the book.

5 He (the Imam) then said, ‘This can happen when a Muslim dies far away from his land where he cannot find two Muslim men, thus he can appoint two taxpayers of the followers of the book who are acceptable among their own people to bear witness to his will." صحيح - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (24/255))