Al-Kafi 13534

Translation

Ali Bin Ibrahim, from Muhammad Bin Isa Bin Ubeyd, from Yunus, from Hisham Bin Salim who said, ‘Khatab Al-Awr asked Abu Ibrahim^asws (7^th Imam^asws), and I was seated there, so he said, ‘There was an employee with my father who worked for him for the wages. So we lost him, and there remained for him something from his wages, and we do not recognise his inheritors’. He^asws said: ‘So seek him’. He said, ‘We have sought him, but could not find him’. So he^asws said: ‘Poor’ – and he^asws moved his^asws hands (gestured). He (the narrator) said, ‘So I repeated to him^asws. He^asws said: ‘Seek and strive in accordance to your ability, or else it is like your wealth until there comes someone seeking it. So if there befalls with you what befalls (death), so bequeath with it that if someone comes seeking it, then it should be handed over to him’.

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