Al-Kafi 5995

Translation

Ahmad Bin Idrees, and someone else, from Muhammad Bin Ahmad, from Ali Bin Al Rayyan, from his father, from Yunus, or someone else, from the one who mentioned it, (It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah^asws, said, ‘I said to him^asws, ‘May I be sacrificed for you^asws! It reached me that you^asws did something regarding the produce of Ayn Ziyad, and I would love to hear it from you^asws’. So he^asws said to me: ‘Yes. I^asws used to order, whenever the fruits ripened, that a groove be grooved in its walls for the people to enter and eat; and I^asws used to order, during every day, for ten structures (to be set up), with ten people being able to sit upon. Every time ten had eaten, ten others would come, attaching for every person of them, a Mudd (750 gms.) of dates. And I^asws used to order for the neighbours of the place, all of them, the old man, and the old woman, and the children, and the sick, and the women, and the one who was not able to come and eat from it, a Mudd (750 gms.) for each person of them. So when it was the picking time, I fulfilled to the workers, and the allocated guards, and paid the workers to carry the remainder to Al-Medina. So I scattered it among the people of the houses and the deserving ones, the two camel loads, and the three, and the less and the more, upon a measurement of their deservedness, and there arrived to me after that, four hundred Dinars, and its gross produce had been four thousand Dinars’.

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