Al-Kafi 6840

Translation

Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from Ali Bin Al Hassan Al Maysami, from his two brothers, Muhammad and Ahmad, from Ali Bin Yaqoub Al Hashimy, from Marwan Bin Muslim, from Saeed Bin Amro Al Ju’fy, from a man from the people of Egypt who said, ‘My brother bequeathed to me with a slave girl who was a singer for him, a luxury, and made her to be gifted to the Sacred House of Allah^azwj. So I proceeded to Makkah and asked around. So it was said, ‘Hand her over to the Clan of Shayba’, and it was said to me other than that from the words. So it was conflicting upon me with regards to it. So a man from the people of the (Sacred) Masjid said to me, ‘Shall I guide you to the one who would guide you regarding this, to the Truth?’ I said, ‘Yes’. He (the narrator) said, ‘So he indicated towards an old man seated in the Masjid and he said, ‘This is Ja’far^asws Bin Muhammad^asws, so ask him^asws’. So I went over to him^asws and asked him^asws, and related the story to him^asws. So he^asws said: ‘The Kabah neither eats nor drinks, and whatever is gifted to it, so it is for the visitors. Sell the slave girl and stand upon the (Black) Stone and call out, ‘Is there one who has been cut-off (by the bandits), and is there one who is needy’, from its visitors. So when they come over, so ask about them, and give them, and distribute her price among them’. He (the narrator) said, ‘So I said to him^asws, ‘One of the ones I asked instructed me with handing her over to the Clan of Shayba’. So he^asws said: ‘But, our^asws Qaim^asws, if he^asws had risen, would have seized them, and cut off their hands, and circled with them and said: ‘These are the thieves (stealing from) Allah^azwj’.

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