كَتَبْتُ إِلَى عَبْدٍ صَالِحٍ ( عليه السلام ) قَدْ وَقَعَتْ عِنْدِي مِائَتَا دِرْهَمٍ وَ أَرْبَعَةُ دَرَاهِمَ وَ أَنَا صَاحِبُ فُنْدُقٍ وَ مَاتَ صَاحِبُهَا وَ لَمْ أَعْرِفْ لَهُ وَرَثَةً فَرَأْيُكَ فِي إِعْلَامِي حَالَهَا وَ مَا أَصْنَعُ بِهَا فَقَدْ ضِقْتُ بِهَا ذَرْعاً فَكَتَبَ اعْمَلْ فِيهَا وَ أَخْرِجْهَا صَدَقَةً قَلِيلًا قَلِيلًا حَتَّى تَخْرُجَ .
Translation
Yunus, from Nasr Bin Habeeb, the author of Al Khan, who said, ‘I wrote to Abd Salih<sup>asws</sup> (7<sup>th</sup> Imam<sup>asws</sup>) that there were with me one hundred and forty Dirhams, and I am an owner of a hotel, and its owner (of the money) died, and I do not recognise any inheritor of his. So, your<sup>asws</sup> view in letting me know of its state and what shall I do with it, for I am fed up with it’. So he<sup>asws</sup> wrote: ‘You can work in it and take out charity, little by little until it is taken out (completely)’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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