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Rav Shmuel bar Abba went before R' Yirmeya bar Abba to claim his mother’s property. R' Yirmeya established him as the owner of the property, in accordance with what was written in the document. R' Abba, the mother’s husband, went and said a report of the matter before Rav Hoshaya. Rav Hoshaya went
The rabbis said that halakha before R' Yirmeya bar Abba, who had ruled that the property belongs to Rav Shmuel bar Abba. He said to them: I know the Mishnah that supports my opinion, as we learned in a Mishnah (Bava Batra 136a): In the case of one who writes a document transferring ownership of his
R' Yirmeya bar Abba infers: In any event, if the son sold the property during his father’s lifetime, when the father dies the purchaser has rights to the property. And this would be so even though it is a case where the son died in the father’s lifetime, where the property never came into the son’s
R' Yirmeya bar Abba’s analysis is in accordance with the opinion of R' Shimon ben Lakish, who says: There is no difference if the son died in the father’s lifetime, where the property never came into the son’s possession, and there is no difference if the father died in the son’s lifetime, where t
The Talmud records a dispute between the amora’im with regard to this point. As was stated: In a case where the son sold the property in the father’s lifetime, and the son died in the father’s lifetime, R' Yoḥanan says: The purchaser did not acquire the property. Reish Lakish says: The purchaser ac