كَانَ رَجُلٌ بِالْمَدِينَةِ وَ كَانَ لَهُ جَارِيَةٌ نَفِيسَةٌ فَوَقَعَتْ فِي قَلْبِ رَجُلٍ وَ أُعْجِبَ بِهَا فَشَكَا ذَلِكَ إِلَى أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) قَالَ تَعَرَّضْ لِرُؤْيَتِهَا وَ كُلَّمَا رَأَيْتَهَا فَقُلْ أَسْأَلُ اللَّهَ مِنْ فَضْلِهِ فَفَعَلَ فَمَا لَبِثَ إِلَّا يَسِيراً حَتَّى عَرَضَ لِوَلِيِّهَا سَفَرٌ فَجَاءَ إِلَى الرَّجُلِ فَقَالَ يَا فُلَانُ أَنْتَ جَارِي وَ أَوْثَقُ النَّاسِ عِنْدِي وَ قَدْ عَرَضَ لِي سَفَرٌ وَ أَنَا أُحِبُّ أَنْ أُودِعَكَ فُلَانَةَ جَارِيَتِي تَكُونُ عِنْدَكَ فَقَالَ الرَّجُلُ لَيْسَ لِي امْرَأَةٌ وَ لَا مَعِي فِي مَنْزِلِي امْرَأَةٌ فَكَيْفَ تَكُونُ جَارِيَتُكَ عِنْدِي فَقَالَ أُقَوِّمُهَا عَلَيْكَ بِالثَّمَنِ وَ تَضْمَنُهُ لِي تَكُونُ عِنْدَكَ فَإِذَا أَنَا قَدِمْتُ فَبِعْنِيهَا أَشْتَرِيهَا مِنْكَ وَ إِنْ نِلْتَ مِنْهَا نِلْتَ مَا يَحِلُّ لَكَ فَفَعَلَ وَ غَلَّظَ عَلَيْهِ فِي الثَّمَنِ وَ خَرَجَ الرَّجُلُ فَمَكَثَتْ عِنْدَهُ مَا شَاءَ اللَّهُ حَتَّى قَضَى وَطَرَهُ مِنْهَا ثُمَّ قَدِمَ رَسُولٌ لِبَعْضِ خُلَفَاءِ بَنِي أُمَيَّةَ يَشْتَرِي لَهُ جَوَارِيَ فَكَانَتْ هِيَ فِيمَنْ سُمِّيَ أَنْ يُشْتَرَى فَبَعَثَ الْوَالِي إِلَيْهِ فَقَالَ لَهُ جَارِيَةَ فُلَانٍ قَالَ فُلَانٌ غَائِبٌ فَقَهَرَهُ عَلَى بَيْعِهَا وَ أَعْطَاهُ مِنَ الثَّمَنِ مَا كَانَ فِيهِ رِبْحٌ فَلَمَّا أُخِذَتِ الْجَارِيَةُ وَ أُخْرِجَ بِهَا مِنَ الْمَدِينَةِ قَدِمَ مَوْلَاهَا فَأَوَّلُ شَيْءٍ سَأَلَهُ سَأَلَهُ عَنِ الْجَارِيَةِ كَيْفَ هِيَ فَأَخْبَرَهُ بِخَبَرِهَا وَ أَخْرَجَ إِلَيْهِ الْمَالَ كُلَّهُ الَّذِي قَوَّمَهُ عَلَيْهِ وَ الَّذِي رَبِحَ فَقَالَ هَذَا ثَمَنُهَا فَخُذْهُ فَأَبَى الرَّجُلُ وَ قَالَ لَا آخُذُ إِلَّا مَا قَوَّمْتُ عَلَيْكَ وَ مَا كَانَ مِنْ فَضْلٍ فَخُذْهُ لَكَ هَنِيئاً فَصَنَعَ اللَّهُ لَهُ بِحُسْنِ نِيَّتِهِ .
Translation
A number of our companions, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad Bin Isa, from Ali Bin Al Hakam, from Zur’at Bin Muhammad who said, ‘There was a man in Al-Medina who had a valuable slave girl. So she occurred in the heart of a man and he was fascinated with her. So he complained about that to Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup> who<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘Turn away from looking at her, and every time you see her, so say, ‘I ask Allah<sup>azwj</sup> from His<sup>azwj</sup> Grace’. So he did. It was not long before a journey presented itself to her guardian, so he went over to the man and said, ‘O so and so! You are my neighbour and the more reliable of the people in my presence, and a journey has presented itself to me, and I would love it if I could leave my so and so slave girl to be with you’. So the man said, ‘There is no wife for me nor is there any woman in my house. So how can your slave girl be with me?’ So he said, ‘I shall evaluate her to you with the price, and you guarantee it for me for she to be with you. So when I come back, so sell her and I shall buy her from you, and if you were to attain from her whatever you attain what is Permissible for you, so do it’, and he affirmed the price upon him, and the man went out. So she remained with him for as long as Allah<sup>azwj</sup> so Desired, until he fulfilled his wishes from her. Then a messenger of one of the Caliphs of the Clan of Umayya came over to buy slave girls for him, so she was among the one who had been named for the acquisition. So the governor sent a messenger to him who said to him, ‘The slave girl of so and so’. He said, ‘So and so is absent’. But he coerced him upon selling her, and gave him the price what had a profit in it. So when he took the slave girl and went out with her from Al-Medina, her master came over, and the first thing he asked him was that he asked him about the slave girl, how she was. So he informed him with her news and brought out the wealth to him, all of it, which had been evaluated upon him, and which was a profit, and he said, ‘This is her price, so take it’. But, the man refused and said, ‘I will not take except what I had evaluated upon you, and what was from the excess, so you are welcome to take it for your’. Thus, Allah<sup>azwj</sup> Dealt with him by the goodness of his intention’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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