Al-Kafi 8461

Translation

Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Muhammad Bin Ahmad, from Yusuf Bin Al Sukht, from Ali Bin Muhammad Bin Suleyman, from Al Fazl Bin Suleyman, from Al Abbas Bin Isa who said, ‘Ali^asws Bin Al-Husayn^asws was straitened with financial straitness, so he^asws went over to a friend of his^asws, so he^asws said to him, ‘Lend me one thousand Dirhams until financial ease’. So he said, ‘No, because I do not have it, but I want a bond’. He (the narrator) said, ‘So he^asws tore out a piece of his^asws robe and said to him: ‘This is the bond’. He (the narrator) said, ‘His^asws friend disliked that, so he^asws was angered and said, ‘Am I^asws higher with the entrustment or Hajib Bin Zurara?’ So he said: ‘You^asws are higher with that than he is’. So he^asws said, ‘So how come Haijb came to mortgage a bow, and rather it is only a stick, upon one hundred carriers, and he is an Infidel, so he was loyal, and I^asws would not be loyal to a piece of my^asws own robe?’ He (the narrator) said, ‘So the man took it from him^asws, and gave him^asws the Dirhams, and made the piece of the robe to be in a container’. So Allah^azwj Mighty and Majestic Eased the wealth for him^asws, so he^asws carried it to the man, then said to him: ‘I^asws have presented your wealth (back to you), so give my^asws bond’. So he said to him^asws, ‘May I be sacrificed for you^asws! I have lost it’. So he^asws said: ‘Then do not take your wealth from me. The like of me^asws cannot be taken lightly with his^asws entrustment’. He (the narrator) said, ‘So the man brought out the container, and the piece of the robe was in it. So Ali^asws Bin Al-Husayn^asws gave him the Dirhams and took the piece of the robe and threw it away, and left’.

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