Hadith record

3. Muhammad ibn Yahya has narrated from Ahmad ibn Muhammad and A number of our people have narrated from Sahl ibn Ziyad all from ibn Mahbub from ‘Umar ibn Yazid who has narrated the following: “I once asked abu ‘Abd Allah (a.s.), about the case of a man who dies leaving behind a woman who is pregnant. She gives birth after his death and the boy dies after falling on the ground. The female nurse saw and heard him crying when falling on the ground but then died. He (the Imam) said, ‘It is up to the Imam to apply her testimony for the one-fourth of the legacy of the boy.’” (The testimony of the nurse is one out of four needed)

Translation: Muhammad Sarwar·Thaqalayn link·The Arabic above is the original.