كَانَ أَبُو الْحَسَنِ مُوسَى ( عليه السلام ) فِي حَائِطٍ لَهُ يَصْرِمُ فَنَظَرْتُ إِلَى غُلَامٍ لَهُ قَدْ أَخَذَ كَارَةً مِنْ تَمْرٍ فَرَمَى بِهَا وَرَاءَ الْحَائِطِ فَأَتَيْتُهُ وَ أَخَذْتُهُ وَ ذَهَبْتُ بِهِ إِلَيْهِ فَقُلْتُ جُعِلْتُ فِدَاكَ إِنِّي وَجَدْتُ هَذَا وَ هَذِهِ الْكَارَةَ فَقَالَ لِلْغُلَامِ يَا فُلَانُ قَالَ لَبَّيْكَ قَالَ أَ تَجُوعُ قَالَ لَا يَا سَيِّدِي قَالَ فَتَعْرَى قَالَ لَا يَا سَيِّدِي قَالَ فَلِأَيِّ شَيْءٍ أَخَذْتَ هَذِهِ قَالَ اشْتَهَيْتُ ذَلِكَ قَالَ اذْهَبْ فَهِيَ لَكَ وَ قَالَ خَلُّوا عَنْهُ .
Translation
A number of our companions, from Ahmad Bin Abu Abdullah, from Sa’dan, from Mo’tab who said, ‘It was so that Abu Al-Hassan Musa<sup>asws</sup> was by a (garden) wall of his<sup>asws</sup>, and he<sup>asws</sup> looked at a slave of his<sup>asws</sup> who had taken a bunch of dates, and he threw it behind the wall. So I went over to him, and seized it and went with him to him<sup>asws</sup>, and I said, ‘May I be sacrificed for you<sup>asws</sup>! I found this one that this bunch (of dates)’. So he<sup>asws</sup> said to the slave: ‘O so and so!’ He said, ‘At your<sup>asws</sup> service!’ He<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘Are you hungry?’ He said, ‘Yes, my Master<sup>asws</sup>!’ He<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘So are you bare (need clothes)?’ He said, ‘Yes, my Master<sup>asws</sup>!’ He<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘So, for which thing (reason) did you take these?’ He said, ‘I desired that’. He<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘Go, for these are for you’. And he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘Leave him alone’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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