دَخَلْتُ أَنَا وَ أَبُو بَصِيرٍ عَلَى أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) فَقَالَ لَهُ أَبُو بَصِيرٍ إِنَّ لَنَا صَدِيقاً وَ هُوَ رَجُلٌ صَدُوقٌ يَدِينُ اللَّهَ بِمَا نَدِينُ بِهِ فَقَالَ مَنْ هَذَا يَا أَبَا مُحَمَّدٍ الَّذِي تُزَكِّيهِ فَقَالَ الْعَبَّاسُ بْنُ الْوَلِيدِ بْنِ صَبِيحٍ فَقَالَ رَحِمَ اللَّهُ الْوَلِيدَ بْنَ صَبِيحٍ مَا لَهُ يَا أَبَا مُحَمَّدٍ قَالَ جُعِلْتُ فِدَاكَ لَهُ دَارٌ تَسْوَى أَرْبَعَةَ آلَافِ دِرْهَمٍ وَ لَهُ جَارِيَةٌ وَ لَهُ غُلَامٌ يَسْتَقِي عَلَى الْجَمَلِ كُلَّ يَوْمٍ مَا بَيْنَ الدِّرْهَمَيْنِ إِلَى الْأَرْبَعَةِ سِوَى عَلَفِ الْجَمَلِ وَ لَهُ عِيَالٌ أَ لَهُ أَنْ يَأْخُذَ مِنَ الزَّكَاةِ قَالَ نَعَمْ قَالَ وَ لَهُ هَذِهِ الْعُرُوضُ فَقَالَ يَا أَبَا مُحَمَّدٍ فَتَأْمُرُنِي أَنْ آمُرَهُ أَنْ يَبِيعَ دَارَهُ وَ هِيَ عِزُّهُ وَ مَسْقَطُ رَأْسِهِ أَوْ يَبِيعَ جَارِيَتَهُ الَّتِي تَقِيهِ الْحَرَّ وَ الْبَرْدَ وَ تَصُونُ وَجْهَهُ وَ وَجْهَ عِيَالِهِ أَوْ آمُرَهُ أَنْ يَبِيعَ غُلَامَهُ وَ جَمَلَهُ وَ هُوَ مَعِيشَتُهُ وَ قُوتُهُ بَلْ يَأْخُذُ الزَّكَاةَ وَ هِيَ لَهُ حَلَالٌ وَ لَا يَبِيعُ دَارَهُ وَ لَا غُلَامَهُ وَ لَا جَمَلَهُ .
Translation
Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Ismail Bin Abdul Aziz, from his father who said, ‘I and Abu Baseer went over to Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup>, so Abu Baseer said to him<sup>asws</sup>, ‘There is a friend of ours and he is a truthful man, making a Religion of Allah<sup>azwj</sup> with what we make it to be’. So he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘O Abu Muhammad! Whom are you praising?’ So he said, ‘Al-Abbas Bin Al-Waleed Bin Sabeeh’. So he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘May Allah<sup>azwj</sup> be Merciful to Waleed Bin Sabeeh. What is the matter with him, O Abu Muhammad?’ He said, ‘May I be sacrificed for you<sup>asws</sup>! For him is a house equating to four thousand Dirhams, and for him is a slave girl, and for him is a slave watering the camel (costing) what is between the two Dirhams up to the four, besides the feed of the camel, and there are dependants for him. Is it for him that he takes from the <span class="iTxt">Zakāt</span>?’ He<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘Yes. He said, ‘And for there are these displays?’ So he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘O Abu Muhammad” So you are instructing me<sup>asws</sup> that I<sup>asws</sup> should order him that he should sell his house and it is his honour and his birthplace, or sell his slave girl who saves him from the heat and the cold and maintains his face and the faces of his dependants, or order him that he should sell his slave and his camel and it is his livelihood and his provision? But, he can take the <span class="iTxt">Zakāt</span> and it is Permissible for him, and he should neither sell his house, nor his slave, nor his camel’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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