Yazid bin Hurmaz says: Najdah wrote a letter to Sayyiduna Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) to ask five things, ... ... one of them was: when does the period of orphanhood for an orphan end? Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) wrote in reply: You have asked me when the period of orphanhood for an orphan ends. By my life, a man’s beard may grow, but even then he may remain weak in handling his affairs. When he is able to choose the good for himself from among the matters of people, then his orphanhood ends.