Al-Kafi 13960

Translation

A number of our companions, from Ahmad Bin Abu Abdullah, from Amro Bin Usman, from Ali Bin Abu Hamza, from Abu Baseer, (It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah^asws having said: ‘Amir Al-Momineen^asws had judged with a judgement which no one else had judged with it before him, and he^asws was the first one to have judged with it after Rasool-Allah^saww, and that was that after the passing away of Rasool-Allah^saww resulting in the command going to Abu Bakr, they came with a man to Abu Bakr who had drunk the wine. So Abu Bakr said to him, ‘Did you drink the wine?’ So the man said, ‘Yes’. So he said, ‘And why did you drink it and it is a Prohibition?’ So he said, ‘When I became a Muslim, and my house was in the midst of a people who were drinking the wine, and they were permitting it, and had I known that it was Prohibited, I would have avoided it’. He^asws said: ‘So Abu Bakr turned towards Umar, so he said, ‘What are you saying, O Abu Hafs, regarding the matter of this man?’ So he said, ‘It is a dillemma, and Abu Al-Hassan^asws is (right) for it’. So Abu Bakr said, ‘O slave, call Ali^asws for us’. Umar said, ‘But he^asws gives the judgement in his^asws house’. So they came over to hiim^asws and with him^asws was Salman Al-Farsy^as. So he (Abu Bakr) informed him^asws of the story of the man, and the man related his own story to him^asws. So Ali^asws said to Abu Bakr: ‘Send someone who would go around with him at the gatherings of the Emigrants and the Helpers. So the one who had recited the Verse of the Probition to him, so let him testify. So if there does not happen to be anyone who had recited the Verse of the Prohibition to him, so there is nothing upon him’. So Abu Bakr did that with the man, what Ali^asws said. But no one testified upon him, so he freed his way. So, Salman^as said to Ali^asws, ‘You^asws have guided them’. So Ali^asws said: ‘But rather, I^asws wanted renewal of the confirmation of this Verse of war booty, <span class="ibTxt"><a href="/#/books/quran:10#h35"><a href="/books/quran:10#h35">[10:35]</a></a> Is He then Who Guides to the Truth more worthy to be followed, or he who does not find Guidance unless he is himself Guided? So what is the matter with you; how are you judging?</span>’.

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