قُلْتُ لِأَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) رَجُلٌ بَعَثَ بِزَكَاةِ مَالِهِ لِتُقْسَمَ فَضَاعَتْ هَلْ عَلَيْهِ ضَمَانُهَا حَتَّى تُقْسَمَ فَقَالَ إِذَا وَجَدَ لَهَا مَوْضِعاً فَلَمْ يَدْفَعْهَا فَهُوَ لَهَا ضَامِنٌ حَتَّى يَدْفَعَهَا وَ إِنْ لَمْ يَجِدْ لَهَا مَنْ يَدْفَعُهَا إِلَيْهِ فَبَعَثَ بِهَا إِلَى أَهْلِهَا فَلَيْسَ عَلَيْهِ ضَمَانٌ لِأَنَّهَا قَدْ خَرَجَتْ مِنْ يَدِهِ وَ كَذَلِكَ الْوَصِيُّ الَّذِي يُوصَى إِلَيْهِ يَكُونُ ضَامِناً لِمَا دُفِعَ إِلَيْهِ إِذَا وَجَدَ رَبَّهُ الَّذِي أُمِرَ بِدَفْعِهِ إِلَيْهِ فَإِنْ لَمْ يَجِدْ فَلَيْسَ عَلَيْهِ ضَمَانٌ.
Translation
Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from hammad Bin Isa, from Hareyz, from Zurara, from Muhammad Bin Muslim who said, ‘I said to Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup>, ‘A man sent the <span class="iTxt">Zakāt</span> of his wealth to be distributed, but it was wasted. It is responsibility upon him until it gets distributed?’ So he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘When he found an appropriate place for it, but did not hand it over, so he would be responsible for it until it is handed over; but if he did not find for it the one whom he could hand it over to, so he sent it to its deserving ones, then the responsibility is not upon him, because it went out from his hand. And similar to that is the trustee to whom it is entrusted, would happen to be responsible for whatever is handed over to him when he finds the one whom its owner had instructed him to hand it over to. But if he does not find, then there is no responsibility upon him’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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