Al-Kafi 14632

Translation

Al Husayn Bin Muhammad, from Ahmad Bin Ali, the scribe, from Ibrahim Bin Muhammad Al Saqafy, from Abdullah Bin Abu Shayba, from Hareyz, from Atiya Bin Al Saib, from Zadan who said, ‘Two men entrusted a woman with an entrustment and both said to her, ‘Do not hand it over to anyone one from us until we are gathered in your presence’. Then they both left. So they were both absent (for a time), and then one of the two came to her, so he said, ‘Give me my entrustment, for my companions has died’. But she refused, to the extent that their differing were numerous, then she gave it to him. Then the other one came over, so he said, ‘Give me my entrustment’. So she said, ‘You companions has taken it, and mentioned that you had died’. So the matter was raised to Umar. So Umar said to her, ‘I do not see you except as one who is responsible’. So the woman said, ‘I make Ali^asws between me and him’. So Umar said, ‘Judge between the two’. So Ali^asws said: ‘This (woman) is the entrustment in my^asws presence, and you had both instructed her that she should not hand it over to any one of you until you are both gathered in her presence. So come to me^asws with your companion (the other man who took the money)’. Thus he^asws did not hold her to be responsible, and Ali^asws said: ‘But rather, they had both intended to go away with the wealth of the woman’.

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