Al-Kafi 14630

Translation

Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, and Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, both together from Ibn Mahboub, from Abdul Rahman Bin Al Hajjaj who said, ‘I heard Ibn Abu Layli discussing with his companions, so he said, ‘Amir Al-Momineen^asws judged between two men who had accompanied each other in a journey. So when they intended breakfast, one of them brought out from his provision, five loaves, and the other one brought out three loaves. So there passed by them a traveller. So they called him over to both their food. So the man was with them both until there did not remain anything (from the loaves). So when they were free, the traveller gave them both eight Dirhams as a reward of what he had eaten from both their food. So the owner of the three loaves said to the owner of the five loaves, ‘Divide it in two halves between me and you’, and the owner of the five (loaves) said, ‘No, but each one of us should take from the Dirhams upon the number of whatever was brought out from the provisions. So they both came to Amir Al-Momineen^asws regarding that. So when he^asws heard both their speeches, said to them both: ‘Settle with each other, for if I^asws were to judge between the two of you, it would be closer’. So they both said, ‘Judge between us with the truth’. He (the narrator) said, ‘So he^asws gave the owner of the five loaves seven Dirhams, and gave the owner of the three loaves one Dirham, and said: ‘Did not one of you bring out five loaves from his provisions and the other one brought out three loaves?’ So they both said: ‘Yes’. He^asws said: ‘Did not a guest eat with you both similar to what you both ate?’ They both said, ‘Yes’. He^asws said: ‘Did not each one of you two each three loaves less a third of it (two and two-thirds of a loaf each)?’ They both said: ‘Yes’. Is it not that you, owner of the three (loaves) ate three less a third, and you O owner of the five (loaves) three loaves less a third, and the guest ate three loaves less a third. Is it not that there remains for you, O owner of the three (loaves), a third of a loaf from your provision, and there remains for you, O owner of the five (loaves) two loaves and a third, and you ate three loaves less a third?’ Thus, he^asws gave them both, for every third of a loaf, one Dirham. So he gave the owner of the two loaves and a third, seven Dirhams, and gave the owner of a third of a loaf, one Dirham’.

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