Al-Kafi 7865

Translation

A number of our companions, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from Al Hasan Bin Ali, from a man called Sawada who said, ‘We were a group in Mina, and the sacrificial animals were too expensive. So we looked around and there was Abu Abdullah^asws having paused upon a spot bargaining for the sheep, and he^asws was intensively bargaining with them. So we paused and looked on. So when he^asws was free, he^asws turned towards us and he^asws said: ‘I^asws think you all have been astounded from my^asws bargaining?’ So we said, ‘Yes’. So he^asws said: ‘The loss maker is not praiseworthy, nor is he hired. Is there a need for you?’ So we said, ‘Yes, may Allah^azwj Keep you^asws well! The sacrificial animal have become too expensive upon us’. He^asws said: ‘So gather together and buy one camel, in what is between you all’. We said, ‘And our expenditure would not reach (to that)’. He^asws said: ‘So gather together and buy one cow in what is between you all, and slaughter it’. We said, ‘And our expenditure would not reach (to that)’. He^asws said: ‘So gather together and buy a sheep in what is between you all, and slaughter it’. We said, ‘Would it suffice from seven (of us)?’ He^asws said: ‘Yes, and it would (even) suffice from seventy’.

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