Al-Kāfi — Volume 7

Chapters

• The Authority to Govern Rests with the Imam Only (3)
• Judgments must be Issued on the Basis of Testimony and Oath (4)
• Establishing Testimony is on the Plaintiff and Oath is on the Defendant (2)
• Complaint against a Deceased (1)
• One who Does not have Testimony, then Oath is Turned on Him (5)
• One who has Testimony there is no Oath on Him (2)
• If one Agrees with an Oath that is Taken, it Dismisses his Claim even if he has Testimony (3)
• The Case of Two People who Claim for Something Each one with Testimony (6)
• Another Chapter (2)
• Another Chapter (1)
• The Rare Ahadith (23)
• Kinds of Judges (2)
• The Case of one who Judges by Means of what is other than what Allah, most Majestic, most Glorious, has Revealed (5)
• One Who Issues Fatwa is Responsible (2)
• Accepting a Bribe for Issuing Judgments (3)
• Committing Injustice in Issuing a Judgment (2)
• The Undesirability of Sitting near the Unjust Judges (1)
• The Undesirability of Taking a case before the Unjust Judges (5)
• Adjudication Disciplines (6)
• The Ordained Shares (3)
• The Reason Why a Male’s Share is Twice the Share of a Female (3)
• The Legacy is Just for the Eldest Son (4)
• The Share of Children from the Legacy (9)
• The Share of Grandchildren in the legacy (4)
• Inheritance of Parents (3)
• Inheritance of Parents with Brothers and Sisters from the Father and Brothers and Sisters from the Mother (7)
• The Inheritance of a Son with both Parents (3)
• Inheritance of the Son, with Husband and Woman and Both Parents (3)
• Inheritance of Parents with Husband and Wife (5)
• AI-Kalalah (Burdensome one’s in Inheritance) (3)
• The Legacy Comes from the Share of the One Nearest in Relationship to Him and that the Owner of Ordained Share is more Deserving than those who do not have any Ordained Share (3)
• Inheritance of Brothers and Sisters with Children (9)
• Inheritance of the Grandfather (11)
• Brothers from a Mother with the Grandfather (7)
• Son of a Brother with a Grandfather (16)
• Inheritance of Relatives (9)
• A Woman Leaves Behind Just her Husband (7)
• A Deceased Leaves behind Just his Wife (5)
• Women do not Inherit Anything from Real Property (11)
• Dispute of Man and Woman over Household Items (1)
• The Rare Ahadith (1)
• Obligations are not Fulfilled without the Sword (3)
• Inheritance of a Boy and a Girl who are not yet Mature (3)
• The Inheritance of a Married and Mature Female before going to Bed (4)
• Inheritance of Women Divorced during Illness or without Illness (7)
• Inheritance of Relatives with Mawali (9)
• Inheritance of People Drowned and because of the Collapse of a Structure on them (7)
• Inheritance of People Killed, those who Inherit and those who do not Inherit from the Wergild (8)
• The Inheritance of a Killer (10)
• Inheritance of People of other Religions (6)
• Another Chapter on Inheritance of People of other Religions (4)
• The Inheritance of the People of Religion among them according to the Book of Allah and the Sunnah of His Holy Prophet (2)
• The Rare Ahadith (2)
• If a Deceased Leaves Behind Muslim and non-Muslim Heirs (2)
• Inheritance of Slaves (8)
• The Free and Slaves do not Inherit each other (4)
• Deceased leaves Behind One Free and One Owned Heir (1)
• Another Chapter (2)
• The Inheritance Due to Special Contract (1)
• Inheritance of an Apostate (4)
• Inheritance of One who is Lost (9)
• Inheritance of the Crying Newborn Child (6)
• Inheritance of Hermaphrodite (5)
• Invalidity of Deficiency (in the Ordained Shares) (3)
• Another Chapter (3)
• Another Chapter (1)
• Another Chapter (2)
• Inheritance of the Child of Parents who Condemn Each other (al -Mula‘anah (condemnation)) (10)
• Another Chapter about the Child of Mula‘anah (condemnation) (1)
• Another Chapter (1)
• Inheritance of a Child from Fornication (4)
• Another Chapter (2)
• Another Chapter (2)
• The Case of a Child Carried away from his Birthplace ( al-Hamil ) (3)
• Another Chapter on Invalidity of al-‘Awl (deficiency or excess) and the Ordained Shares are not more than Six (7)
• Confirming of Certain Heir a Debt (2)
• Another Chapter (1)
• One who Dies without Leaving Behind any Heirs (4)
• Another Chapter (2)
• The Guardianship of One who Sets One Free (6)
• Guardianship of Sa’ibah (Unconditionally Freed Slave) (9)
• Another Chapter (2)
• Knowing to Avoid Deficiency (4)
• With the Existence of a Child and Parents no one Else Inherits Except a Husband and Wife (2)
• The Reason Why Ordained Shares are not more than Six (1)
• The Undesirability of Swearing (6)
• The Intention for an Oath (3)
• Tne must Take an Oath only for what He Knows (4)
• The Oath that Obligates one to Pay Expiation (10)
• Making an Exception in an Oath (8)
• It is not Permissible to take an Oath by anything other than by Allah, most Majestic, most Glorious (5)
• Making the People of the Book to take Oath (5)
• Kaffarah (expiation) for Swearing (14)
• Forming a Commitment (25)
• The Rare Ahadith (21)
• The False Oath (11)
• Another Chapter (3)
• An Oath is not Valid except by Allah, One who does not Agree with Allah is not of Allah (2)
• The Detestability of Swearing in the form of Denouncing Allah and His Messenger, O Allah, grant compensation to Muhammad and his family worthy of their services to Your cause (2)
• Kinds of Swearing (1)
• The Binding Consequence of Oath and Vows (18)
• The Meaningless Matters (1)
• The Case when one Takes an Oath, then Finds something Better (5)
• The First Certificate that was Written on Earth (2)
• Presenting Testimony for the Creditors (2)
• Testimony of Children (6)
• Testimony of Slaves (3)
• That which is Acceptable of the Testimony of Women and that, which is not Acceptable (13)
• Testimony of Woman for her Husband and the Testimony of Man for his Wife (2)
• Testimony of a Father for his Son or a Son’s Testimony for his Father and Testimony of a brother for his Brother (4)
• Testimony of a Business Partner, one Wageworker and the Executor of the Will (4)
• The Witnesses who are Rejected (14)
• The Testimony of an Accuser and an Ex-convict (6)
• Testimony of the Members of all other Nations (8)
• The Case of Man who is Summoned to Testify (6)
• Another Chapter (2)
• Testimony of a Blind and Speechless (3)
• A Man Bears Testimony against a Woman without Looking at Her Face (1)
• The Rare Ahadith (11)
• Hiding the Testimony (3)
• The Case of a Man who hears a Testimony but does not Witness it (6)
• The Case of a Man who Forgets his Bearing Testimony but Recognizes his Handwriting (4)
• False Testimony (3)
• The Case of One who Testifies, then Retracts it (8)
• The Case of the Testimony of One Person and the Oath of the Plaintiff (8)
• Another Chapter (4)
• The Will and What it Must Consist of (5)
• Executing the Will as it Requires (5)
• Another Chapter (2)
• Another Chapter (2)
• A Will for Setting free Slaves, Charity or al-Hajj (18)
• The Executor of the Will must Correct the Possible Violation of the Law in the Will (2)
• An Executor of the Will is held Responsible for Changing a Lawful Will (3)
• Al-Mudabbar (the Slave for whose Freedom Death of the Master is a Condition) is from One Third of the Legacy (4)
• First the Shroud, then Debts, then Will is paid for from the Legacy (3)
• The Will and Debts (7)
• One Who Sets Free a Slave and He is Indebted (3)
• The Witness for the Will (7)
• The Will about a Contracted Slave (1)
• The Will of Immature Boys and Girls, the Lawful and Unlawful Matters in it (4)
• Will in Favor of Mothers of Children (4)
• The Matters Permissible in Endowment, Charity, Gift, Present, Providing Conditional Housing and Matters Permissible or otherwise for a Child and others (41)
• The Will for a Part of One’s Assets (3)
• The Will about Something of One’s Legacy (2)
• The Will about a Share of One’s Legacy (2)
• One in His Illness Confesses His Indebtedness to One of his Heirs (5)
• When certain ones of the Heirs Confirm Freeing of a Slave or Debts (3)
• The Case of One Who Leaves very Little Legacy with a Larger Amount of Debt and Dependents (3)
• A Man Makes a Will and Appoints an Executor but he Refuses to Accept it (6)
• Another Chapter (4)
• The Adults whose Will is not Acceptable (1)
• Distribution of What is Bequeathed To Relatives (3)
• The Case of one who Makes a Bequest for an Adult with whom a Child must Share (2)
• The Case of One’s Appointing Two Executors for the Will, Each of whom Deals with a Certain Portion of the Legacy (2)
• Charities of the Holy Prophet, O Allah, grant compensation to Muhammad and his family worthy of their services to Your cause, Fatimah and ‘A’immah, ‘Alayhim al-Salam (14)
• Things that Reach a Deceased after his Death (5)
• The Rare Ahadith (31)
• The Case of One who Dies without a Will, Leaves behind Small Heirs and it is Sold upon Him (3)
• The Executor of the Will Hands over the Assets of Children who were Small, now Adults, but they Refuse to Take Charge, the Children who Become Adults but are not Found to be of Proper Understanding, the Limit of Adulthood (9)
• The Owner is more Rightful to his Property as Long as he is Living (10)
• Making a Will for the Heir (6)
• The Matters for which one can Make a Will and what is Preferable in the Issue (7)
• Another Chapter (1)
• A Man Makes a Will, then Cancels it (4)
• If the Beneficiary of a Will dies before the Death of the Testator or before Taking Possession (3)