Muʿjam al-Aḥādīth al-Muʿtabara · Hadith 1

Book of Principles of Jurisprudence · Legal Injunctions are Predicated on Pubescence · Volume 1, book 2, chapter 15, Hadith 1

Original Arabic text

[1/100] الخصال: عن أبيه، عن سعد بن عبد الله، عن أحمد بن محمد ابن عيسى، عن أحمد بن محمد بن أبي نصر البزنطي، عن أبي الحسين الخادم بياع اللؤلؤ، عن عبد الله بن سنان، عن أبي عبد الله عليه السلام قال: سأله أبي وأنا حاضر عن اليتيم متى يجوز أمره قال: حتى يبلغ أشده قال: وما أشده قال: الاحتلام قلت: قد يكون الغلام ابن ثمان عشرة سنة أو أقل أو أكثر ولا يحتلم؟ قال: إذا بلغ و كتب عليه الشئ جاز أمره إلا أن يكون سفيها أو ضعيفا

Published English translation

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 السلام, 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.

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