كَانَ عَلِيٌّ ( عليه السلام ) إِذَا أَتَاهُ رَجُلَانِ بِشُهُودٍ عَدْلُهُمْ سَوَاءٌ وَ عَدَدُهُمْ أَقْرَعَ بَيْنَهُمْ عَلَى أَيِّهِمْ تَصِيرُ الْيَمِينُ قَالَ وَ كَانَ يَقُولُ اللَّهُمَّ رَبَّ السَّمَاوَاتِ السَّبْعِ أَيُّهُمْ كَانَ لَهُ الْحَقُّ فَأَدِّهِ إِلَيْهِ ثُمَّ يَجْعَلُ الْحَقَّ لِلَّذِي تَصِيرُ إِلَيْهِ الْيَمِينُ إِذَا حَلَفَ .
Translation
Al Husayn Bin Muhammad, from Moala Bin Muhammad, from Al Washa, from Aban, from Abdul Rahman Bin Abu Abdullah, (It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup> having said: ‘Whenever they came to Ali<sup>asws</sup> with two men with witnesses equal in being just and in number, he<sup>asws</sup> would draw a lot upon whichever the oath would come to be. And he<sup>asws</sup> would be saying: ‘O Allah<sup>azwj</sup>, Lord<sup>azwj</sup> of the seven skies! For whomever the right was, so Make it to be for him’. Then he<sup>asws</sup> would make the right to be for the one to whom it (the lot) came to be, when he swore an oath’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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