Muʿjam al-Aḥādīth al-Muʿtabara - Book of Principles of Jurisprudence

Muʿjam al-Aḥādīth al-Muʿtabara - Book of Principles of Jurisprudence Chapter: Legal Injunctions are Predicated on Pubescence [1/100] الخصال: عن أبيه، عن سعد بن عبد الله، عن أح٠د ابن عيسى، عن أح٠د بن أبي نصر البزنطي، عن أبي الحسين الخاد٠بياع اللؤلؤ، عن عبد الله بن سنان، عن أبي عبد الله عليه السلا٠قال: سأله أبي وأنا حاضر عن اليتي٠ره قال: حتى يبلغ أشده قال: و٠ا أشده قال: الاحتلا٠قلت: قد يكون الغلا٠ان عشرة سنة أو أقل أو أكثر ولا يحتل٠؟ قال: إذا بلغ و كتب عليه الشئ جاز أ٠ره إلا أن يكون سفيها أو ضعيفا 1.

[1/100] al-Khisal: From his father from Sa’d b. Abdallah from Ahmad b. Muhammad b. Isa from Ahmad b. Muhammad b. Abi Nasr al-Bazanti from Abi al-Hasan – the servant and seller of pearls – from Abdallah b. Sinan from Abi Abdillah عليه السلاÙ, he (Abdallah b. Sinan) said: my father asked him about the orphan while I was present – when does his affair become permissible [when does the authority to oversee his affair devolve to him]?

he said: when he attains his maturity, he said: what is his maturity? he said: beginning to have nocturnal emissions, he said: a boy may be eighteen years or a little below that or a little more than that and yet does not have nocturnal emissions (what then)? he said: if he becomes pubescent and something begins to be written for him (of good-deeds and sins by the angels) – then his affair [taking charge of financial decisions] is valid unless he is a fool or mentally incapacitated.