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al-Fadl b. Abi Qurra: 'We walked into the presence of Abu 'Abdillah [al-Sadiq] (AS) and he was working at fixing his wall, so we said, may Allah sacrifice us for you, let us work for you, or let the servants do it.' He said, 'No, let me be, for I desire for Allah to see me working with my hands and earning a lawful livelihood through tiring my own seIf.?

Imam Ja'far ibn Muhammad al-Sadiq [as]

Kitab man la yahdurahi al-Faqih, v. 3, p. 163 no. 3595

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Subject:	When does a boy become adult?
Question:	When does a boy become adult? In other words, when is he supposed to begin carrying out religious acts as obligatory duties?
Answer:	A boy reaches the age of bolugh (adulthood) at the completion of 15 lunar years except for when one of the signs of bolugh appears before that age.

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