كَتَبَ إِلَيَّ بَعْضُ إِخْوَانِي أَنْ أَسْأَلَ أَبَا عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) عَنْ مَسَائِلَ مِنَ السُّنَنِ فَسَأَلْتُهُ أَوْ كَتَبْتُ بِهَا إِلَيْهِ فَكَانَ فِيمَا سَأَلْتُهُ أَخْبِرْنِي عَنِ الْجَيْشِ إِذَا غَزَا أَرْضَ الْحَرْبِ فَغَنِمُوا غَنِيمَةً ثُمَّ لَحِقَهُمْ جَيْشٌ آخَرُ قَبْلَ أَنْ يَخْرُجُوا إِلَى دَارِ السَّلَامِ وَ لَمْ يَلْقَوْا عَدُوّاً حَتَّى خَرَجُوا إِلَى دَارِ السَّلَامِ هَلْ يُشَارِكُونَهُمْ فَقَالَ نَعَمْ وَ عَنْ سَرِيَّةٍ كَانُوا فِي سَفِينَةٍ وَ لَمْ يَرْكَبْ صَاحِبُ الْفَرَسِ فَرَسَهُ كَيْفَ تُقْسَمُ الْغَنِيمَةُ بَيْنَهُمْ فَقَالَ لِلْفَارِسِ سَهْمَانِ وَ لِلرَّاجِلِ سَهْمٌ فَقُلْتُ وَ إِنْ لَمْ يَرْكَبُوا وَ لَمْ يُقَاتِلُوا عَلَى أَفْرَاسِهِمْ فَقَالَ أَ رَأَيْتَ لَوْ كَانُوا فِي عَسْكَرٍ فَتُقَدَّمُ الرُّجَّالُ فَقَاتَلُوا وَ غَنِمُوا كَيْفَ كَانَ يُقْسَمُ بَيْنَهُمْ أَ لَمْ أَجْعَلْ لِلْفَارِسِ سَهْمَيْنِ وَ لِلرَّاجِلِ سَهْماً وَ هُمُ الَّذِينَ غَنِمُوا دُونَ الْفُرْسَانِ .
Translation
Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father and Ali Bin Muhammad, altogether from Al Qasim Bin Muhammad, from Suleyman Bin Dawood, from Hafs Bin Giyas who said, ‘One of my brothers wrote to me that I should ask Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup> certain questions from the Sunnah. So I asked him<sup>asws</sup>, or wrote to him with it. So among what I asked him<sup>asws</sup> was, ‘Inform me about the army when it battles in a battlefield, so they acquire war booty. Then another army meets them (to join it) before they go out to the house of Al-Islam, and they (the second army) did not face an enemy until they all go out to the house of Al-Islam. Would they (the second army) be their participants (in the war booty)?’ So he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘Yes’. And about a battalion in a ship and the owner of the horse did not ride his horse, how would the war booty be distributed between them?’ So he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘For the horse-rider would be two shares, and for the infantry would be one share’. So I said, ‘And if they did not ride and did not fight upon their horses?’ So he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘What is your view if they had been in an army, so the infantry had preceded and they had fought and acquired war booty, how would that have been distributed between them? Would there not be two shares for the cavalry and one share for the infantry, they had acquired the war booty without the cavalry?’
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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