Al-Kafi 14422

Translation

A number of our companions, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad Bin Khalid, from Al Husayn Bin Yusuf, from Muhammad Bin Suleyman, (It has been narrated) from Abu Al-Hassan^asws the 2^nd and Muhammad Bin Ali, from Muhammad Bin Aslam, from Muhammad Bin Suleyman and Yunus Bin Abdul Rahman who both said, ‘We both asked Abu Al-Hassan Al-Reza^asws about a man who was sought for help by a group of people to rescue them from a group of people who were attacking them, looting their wealth and capturing their children. So the man went out prepared with his weapons, in the middle of the night in order to help the people who had sought his help, So (on the way) he passed by the brink of a well where someone was quenching himself from it. So he inadvertently pushed him, and he was not aware of that and did not know. So he fell into the well and died, and the man went (on his way). So he rescued the wealth of those people who had sought his help. So when he went to his family, they said to him, ‘What did you do?’ He said, ‘I dispersed the people from them, and made them secure and safe’. They said to him, ‘Are you aware that so and so fell into the well, so he died?’ He said, ‘By Allah^azwj! I tossed him’. It was said, ‘And how was that?’ So he said, ‘I went out prepared with my weapons in the darkness of the night, and I feared the death upon the people who had sought my help. So I passed by so and so, and he was standing quenching himself from the well. So I bumped into him, and I did not intend that. So he fell into the well, so he died. So upon whom is the wergild for this one?’ So he^asws said: ‘His wergild is upon the group which the man rescued. So he rescued them, and saved their wealth, and their womenfolk, and their children. But, had he employed himself with a wage (to be paid by the group he had saved), the wergild would have been upon himself, and upon his blood relatives, besides them; and that is that Suleyman Bin Dawood^as, an old woman came over to him^as, making a claim against the wind, so she said, ‘O Prophet^as of Allah^azwj! I was standing upon the roof of mine, and the wind pushed me from the roof, so my hand broke. Therefore, support me against the wind’. So Suleyman Bin Dawood^as called the wind over, so he^as said to it: ‘What invited you what you did with this woman?’ So it said, ‘She speaks the truth, O Prophet^as of Allah^azwj! The Lord^azwj of Honour, Mighty and Majestic had Sent me to a ship of the Clan of so and so, in order to rescue it from the drowning, and it had come close to the drowning. So I went out in my way, and my haste to what Allah^azwj Mighty and Majestic had Commanded me with. So I passed by this woman, and she was upon her roof. So I bumped into her, and I did not intend her. So she fell and she broke her hand’. He^asws said: ‘So Suleyman Bin Dawood^as said: ‘O Lord^azwj! With what shall I^as judge with, upon the wind?’ So Allah^azwj Mighty and Majestic Revealed upon him^as: “O Suleyman^as! Judge with the compensation of the breaking of the hand of this woman, upon the lords of the ship, which the wind rescued it from the drowning, for I^azwj am not the least unjust to the claim of anyone from the worlds’.

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