faqih-5437Vol. 4, p. 195
إِنْ أَوْصَى رَجُلٌ إِلَى رَجُلٍ وَ هُوَ غَائِبٌ فَلَيْسَ لَهُ أَنْ يَرُدَّ وَصِيَّتَهُ وَ إِنْ أَوْصَى إِلَيْهِ وَ هُوَ بِالْبَلَدِ فَهُوَ بِالْخِيَارِ إِنْ شَاءَ قَبِلَ وَ إِنْ شَاءَ لَمْ يَقْبَلْ[2].
Chapter on Refusing to Accept a Bequest
Related topics
Chapter on the Legal Punishment for Slanderous Accusation25Chapter on a Man Who Makes a Bequest of Wealth in the Way of Allah2Chapter on the Liability of the Executor for Altering What the Deceased Had Bequeathed3Chapter on Bequests for Relatives and Freed Slaves3Chapter on Appointing a Competent or an Incompetent Person as an Executor of a Bequest2Chapter on the Beneficiary of a Bequest Dying Before the Testator or Before Receiving What Was Bequeathed to Him3Chapter on Bequests for Manumission, Charity, and Hajj15Chapter on Bequests for the Mukatab and Umm Al-Walad3Chapter on a Man Making a Bequest of a Sword, a Chest, or a Ship to Another Man2Chapter on One Who Does Not Make a Bequest While Having Heirs, if His Estate Divided Among Them or Sold for Their Benefit2Chapter on a Man Who Makes a Bequest, but the Executor Forgets it and Only Remembers One Part of it1Chapter on the Legal Punishment for Drinking Alcohol and Reports Regarding Singing and Amusements10
faqih-5438Vol. 4, p. 195
إِذَا بُعِثَ بِهَا إِلَيْهِ مِنْ بَلَدٍ فَلَيْسَ لَهُ رَدُّهَا وَ إِنْ كَانَ فِي مِصْرٍ يُوجَدُ فِيهِ غَيْرُهُ فَذَاكَ إِلَيْهِ.
Hadith.5446 - Ribʿi narrated from Al-Fuḍayl ibn Yasar from Abu Abdullah Imam Jafar ibn Muhammad Al-Sadiq (as) regarding a man who is appointed as an executor. Imam (as) said: "If the will is sent to him from another town, he does not have the right to reject it. However, if he is in a city where others are available, t
faqih-5439Vol. 4, p. 195
إِلَى أَبِي الْحَسَنِ ع رَجُلٌ دَعَاهُ وَالِدُهُ إِلَى قَبُولِ وَصِيَّتِهِ هَلْ لَهُ أَنْ يَمْتَنِعَ مِنْ قَبُولِ وَصِيَّةِ وَالِدِهِ فَوَقَّعَ ع لَيْسَ لَهُ أَنْ يَمْتَنِعَ[3].
I wrote to Abu Al-Hasan (as) asking about a man whose father invited him to accept his will. Is it permissible for him to refuse accepting his father's will? Imam (as) replied: "He does not have the right to refuse."
faqih-5440Vol. 4, p. 196
أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع لَا يَخْذُلْهُ عَلَى هَذِهِ الْحَالِ[1].
Hadith.5448 - Muhammad ibn Abi Umayr narrated from Hisham ibn Salim from Abu Abdullah (as) regarding a man who is entrusted with a will by another man but dislikes accepting it. Abu Abdullah (as) said: "He should not abandon him in this situation."
faqih-5441Vol. 4, p. 196
وَ رَوَى عَلِيُّ بْنُ الْحَكَمِ عَنْ سَيْفِ بْنِ عَمِيرَةَ عَنْ مَنْصُورِ بْنِ حَازِمٍ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع قَالَ إِذَا أَوْصَى الرَّجُلُ إِلَى أَخِيهِ وَ هُوَ غَائِبٌ فَلَيْسَ لَهُ أَنْ يَرُدَّ وَصِيَّتَهُ لِأَنَّهُ لَوْ كَانَ شَاهِداً فَأَبَى أَنْ يَقْبَلَهَا طَلَبَ غَيْرَهُ.
"If a man appoints his brother as his executor while he is absent, he does not have the right to reject the will. This is because if he had been present and refused to accept it, the testator would have sought someone else."