Chapter on Revoking a Bequest

"The one who makes a will has the right to revoke it or make changes to it as long as he is alive."

I heard Abu Abdullah Imam Jafar ibn Muhammad Al-Sadiq (as) say: "The one making a will has the right to revoke it, whether he is in good health or ill."

"The Commander of the Faithful (as) ruled that the manumitted slave (Al-mudabbar) is to be freed from one-third of the estate. A man has the right to revoke his will, to add to it or reduce from it, as long as he has not passed away."

"A man has the right to alter his will. He may free the one he had initially ordered to be owned, and he may grant ownership to the one he had initially ordered to be freed. He may give to the one he had previously deprived and deprive the one he had previously granted, as long as he has not retracted from his decision."