Commentary for Shevuot 93:9

א"ר אמי היכי לידיינו דייני להאי דינא נימא ליה זיל שלים ליכא תרי סהדי נפטריה איכא חד סהדא נימא ליה זיל אישתבע כיון דאמר מיחטף חטפי הוה ליה כגזלן

and a man cannot bequeath an oath to his sons.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., a man cannot bequeath to his sons money which he himself cannot obtain without an oath. Now, the lender would have to take an oath to the sons of the borrower that he had not yet been paid by their father. When he dies, he cannot transmit this oath to his sons, for their oath (if they were to take one) would have to be, 'We swear that our father did not inform us that the debt had been paid.' (v. Mishnah) . Since the father had already become liable to take an oath, and the same oath cannot be transmitted to his sons, they cannot take an oath at all. The sons of the borrower also cannot take an oath that their father had already paid. Hence, Rab and Samuel hold that since neither can take an oath, there is neither oath nor payment; i.e., the oath returns to Sinai.');">¹⁷</span> 'Our Masters of the Land of Israel are R'Abba'; for there was a man who snatched a bar of silver from his neighbour; they came before R'Ammi, and R'Abba was sitting in his presence. He<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The owner of the silver bar; v. supra 32b.');">¹⁸</span>

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