دَخَلَ رَجُلَانِ عَلَى أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) فِي مُدَارَاةٍ بَيْنَهُمَا وَ مُعَامَلَةٍ فَلَمَّا أَنْ سَمِعَ كَلَامَهُمَا قَالَ أَمَا إِنَّهُ مَا ظَفِرَ أَحَدٌ بِخَيْرٍ مِنْ ظَفَرٍ بِالظُّلْمِ أَمَا إِنَّ الْمَظْلُومَ يَأْخُذُ مِنْ دِينِ الظَّالِمِ أَكْثَرَ مِمَّا يَأْخُذُ الظَّالِمُ مِنْ مَالِ الْمَظْلُومِ ثُمَّ قَالَ مَنْ يَفْعَلِ الشَّرَّ بِالنَّاسِ فَلَا نْيُكِرِ الشَّرَّ إِذَا فُعِلَ بِهِ أَمَا إِنَّهُ إِنَّمَا يَحْصُدُ ابْنُ آدَمَ مَا يَزْرَعُ وَ لَيْسَ يَحْصِدُ أَحَدٌ مِنَ الْمُرِّ حُلْواً وَ لَا مِنَ الْحُلْوِ مُرّاً فَاصْطَلَحَ الرَّجُلَانِ قَبْلَ أَنْ يَقُومَا .
Translation
Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad Bin Isa, from Al Hassan Bin Mahboub, from Ali Bin Abu Hamza, from Abu Baseer who said, ‘Two men came over to Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup> regarding management issues and dealings between the two of them. So when he<sup>asws</sup> heard both their speeches, said: ‘But no one would achieve success with goodness from a success achieved by the injustice. But, the oppressed one takes from the Religion of the unjust one more than what the unjust one takes from the wealth of the oppressed one’. Then he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘The one who does evil with the people should not deny the evil when it is done with him. But he, the son of Adam<sup>as</sup>, rather tends to reap what he sows, and no one has harvested sweetness from the bitterness, nor a bitterness from the sweetness’. So the two men reconciled before they arose’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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