Al-Kafi 14430

Translation

A number of our companions, from Ahmad Bin Abu Abdullah, from Is’haq Bin Ibrahim Al Kindy, from Khalid Al Nowfaly, from Al Asbagh Bin Nubata who said, ‘Amir Al-Momineen^asws had judged, and a youth came across him^asws and he was weeping, and round him was a group calming him. So when he saw Amir Al-Momineen^asws, he said, ‘O Amir Al-Momineen^asws! Shuray (the judge) has judged upon me with a judgement, I do not know what it is’. So Amir Al-Momineen^asws said to him: ‘What is it?’ So the youth said, ‘These persons went out with my father being with them, in a journey. So they returned and he did not return. So I asked them about him, so they said, ‘Died’. So I asked them about his wealth, so they said, ‘He did not leave any wealth’. So I proceeded with them to Shurayh. He made them swear oaths, and I know that my father went out and with him was a lot of wealth’. So he^asws said to them: ‘Return!’ So they returned, and Ali^asws was saying: ‘(A proverb) ‘Sa’ad ushered them and Sa’ad incorporated them. It is not like this you should be ushering the camels, O Sa’ad’. Your judgement did not suffice them, O Shurayh’. Then he^asws said: ‘By Allah^azwj! I^asws shall judge among them with a judgement, which no one has judged by before me^asws except for the Prophet Dawood^as. O Qanbar! Call the Thursday policemen for me’. So he called over the Thursday police and he^asws allocated with each man from them with a man from the police. Then he called for them and looked at their faces’ – then he (the narrator) mentioned a Hadeeth similar to the first one, until his (Prophet Dawood^as’s) words: ‘Name this son of your Aash Al-Islam (Religion is alive)’. So I said, ‘May I be sacrificed for you^asws! How did he^as seize them with the wealth, if the boy claimed that his father left behind one hundred thousand, or less, or more, and the group said, ‘No, but it was ten thousand’, or less or more. So for them would be their word, and for this one would be his word’. He^asws said: ‘So I^asws would take his ring and their rings and throw them in one place. Then I^asws would be saying: ‘Make these to be the arrows. So whichever one of you extract his right, so he is the truthful in his claim because it is a divination of Allah^azwj, and a divination of Allah^azwj is not unsuccessful’.

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