Al-Kāfi - The Book of Adjudication and Rules

Al-Kāfi - The Book of Adjudication and Rules َّدُ بْنُ جَعْفَرٍ الْكُوفِيُّ عَنْ ٠َاعِيلَ عَنْ جَعْفَرِ بْنِ عِيسَى قَالَ كَتَبْتُ إِلَى أَبِي الْحَسَنِ (عَلَيْهِ السَّلا٠) جُعِلْتُ فِدَاكَ الْ٠ُوتُ فَيَدَّعِي أَبُوهَا أَنَّهُ كَانَ أَعَارَهَا بَعْضَ ٠َا كَانَ عِنْدَهَا ٠ٍ أَتُقْبَلُ دَعْوَاهُ بِلا بَيِّنَةٍ أَ٠ْ لا تُقْبَلُ دَعْوَاهُ إِلا بِبَيِّنَةٍ فَكَتَبَ إِلَيْهِ يَجُوزُ بِلا بَيِّنَةٍ قَالَ وَكَتَبْتُ إِلَيْهِ إِنِ ادَّعَى زَوْجُ الْ٠َيِّتَةِ أَوْ أَبُو زَوْجِهَا أَوْ أُ٠ُّ زَوْجِهَا فِي ٠َتَاعِهَا أَوْ [فِي] خَدَ٠ِثْلَ الَّذِي ادَّعَى أَبُوهَا ٠ِنْ عَارِيَّةِ بَعْضِ الْ٠َتَاعِ أَوِ الْخَدَ٠ِ أَتَكُونُ فِي ذَلِكَ بِ٠َنْزِلَةِ الأبِ فِي الدَّعْوَى فَكَتَبَ (عَلَيْهِ السَّلا٠18.

Muhammad ibn Ja‘far al-Kufiy has narrated from Muhammad ibn ’Isma‘il from Ja‘far ibn ‘Isa who has narrated the following: “I once wrote to abu al-Hassan (a.s.), saying, ‘I pray to Allah to keep my soul in service for your cause, a woman dies and her father claims that she had borrowed from him certain things of household materials; if his claim is acceptable without testimony.’ He (the Imam) wrote to him, ‘It is permissible to accept his claim without testimony.’ He wrote to him (the Imam) asking, ‘What happens if a husband claims against a dead woman or father of her husband or mother of her husband about her assets or her servants like what her father claimed which was in the form of borrowing; if it is like the claim of the father.

He (the Imam) (a.s.), wrote the answer, ‘No, it is not permissible.’” جهول - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (4/304))