قُلْتُ لِأَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) إِنَّ عَلَيَّ دَيْناً وَ أَظُنُّهُ قَالَ لِأَيْتَامٍ وَ أَخَافُ إِنْ بِعْتُ ضَيْعَتِي بَقِيتُ وَ مَا لِي شَيْءٌ فَقَالَ لَا تَبِعْ ضَيْعَتَكَ وَ لَكِنْ أَعْطِهِ بَعْضاً وَ أَمْسِكْ بَعْضاً .
Translation
Ali Bin Muhammad Bin Bundar, from Ahmad Bin Abu Abdullah, from his father, from Abdullah Bin Al Mugheira, from Bureyd Al Ijaly who said, ‘I said to Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup> that, ‘There are debts upon me’, and I think he (the narrator) said, ‘For the orphans, and I fear that if I were to sell my remaining place, there would be nothing left for me’. So he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘Do not sell your place, but give some of it and withhold some’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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