[31] Learning Stages for Children...

[31] Learning Stages for Children: قَالَ الصَّادِقُ ع دَعِ ابْنَكَ يَلْعَبْ سَبْعَ سِنِينَ وَ يُؤَدَّبْ سَبْعَ سِنِينَ وَ أَلْزِمْهُ نَفْسَكَ سَبْعَ سِنِينَ فَإِنْ أَفْلَحَ وَ إِلَّا فَإِنَّهُ مِمَّنْ لَا خَيْرَ فِيهِ Al-Sadiq -asws said: ‘Leave your son to play for seven years, and discipline him for (following) seven years, and necessitate him to be with yourself for (the following) seven (years). So, if he is successful (fine), or else he is from the ones there is no goodness in him’.

وَ قَالَ أَمِيرُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ع يُرَبَّى الصَّبِيُّ سَبْعاً وَ يُؤَدَّبُ سَبْعاً وَ يُسْتَخْدَمُ سَبْعاً وَ مُنْتَهَى طُولِهِ فِي ثَلَاثٍ وَ عِشْرِينَ سَنَةً وَ عَقْلِهِ فِي خَمْسٍ وَ ثَلَاثِينَ سَنَةً وَ مَا كَانَ بَعْدَ ذَلِكَ فَبِالتَّجَارِبِ And Amir Al-Momineen -asws said: ‘Nourish the child for seven (years), and discipline him for seven (years) and make him serve for seven (years); and the end-point of his tallness is twenty three years, and of his intellect is in thirty-five years, and whatever would be after that, so it is with the experience’.

[32] رَوَى مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى الْخَزَّازُ عَنْ غِيَاثِ بْنِ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ جَعْفَرِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ ع قَالَ قَالَ عَلِيٌّ ص مُبَاشَرَةُ الْمَرْأَةِ ابْنَتَهَا إِذَا بَلَغَتْ سِتَّ سِنِينَ شُعْبَةٌ مِنَ الزِّنَا It is reported by Muhammad Bin Yahya Al Khuzzaz, from Giyas Bin Ibrahim, ‘From Ja’far Bin Muhammad -asws , from his -asws father -asws having said: ‘Ali -asws said: ‘The sleeping of the woman near her daughter after she reaches six years (of age), resembles from the immorality’.

[33] وَ رُوِيَ أَنَّهُ يُفَرَّقُ بَيْنَ الصِّبْيَانِ فِي الْمَضَاجِعِ لِسِتِّ سِنِينَ And it is reported that there should be separation between the children in the bed at (the age of) six years.

[34] عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ وَ عِدَّةٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ سَهْلِ بْنِ زِيَادٍ عَنْ جَعْفَرِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ الْأَشْعَرِيِّ عَنِ ابْنِ الْقَدَّاحِ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع قَالَ يُفَرَّقُ بَيْنَ الْغِلْمَانِ وَ النِّسَاءِ فِي الْمَضَاجِعِ إِذَا بَلَغُوا عَشْرَ سِنِينَ Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father and a number of our companions, from Sahl Bin Ziyad, from Ja’far Bin Muhammad Al Ashary, from Ibn Al Qadah, ‘From Abu Abdullah -asws having said: ‘Separate between the boys and the women in the bed when they reach ten years (of age)’.