قُلْتُ لِأَبِي الْحَسَنِ ( عليه السلام ) مَا تَقُولُ فِي أَعْمَالِ هَؤُلَاءِ قَالَ إِنْ كُنْتَ لَا بُدَّ فَاعِلًا فَاتَّقِ أَمْوَالَ الشِّيعَةِ قَالَ فَأَخْبَرَنِي عَلِيٌّ أَنَّهُ كَانَ يَجْبِيهَا مِنَ الشِّيعَةِ عَلَانِيَةً وَ يَرُدُّهَا عَلَيْهِمْ فِي السِّرِّ .
Translation
Muhammad Bin Yahya, from the one who mentioned it, from Ali Bin Asbat, from Ibrahim Bin Abu Mahmoud, from Ali Bin Yaqteen who said, ‘I said to Abu Al-Hassan<sup>asws</sup>, ‘What are you<sup>asws</sup> saying regarding being of their (governmental) workforce?’ He<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘If it was inevitable, so do it, but fear the wealth of the Shiah (for the government)’. He (the narrator) said, ‘So Ali (Bin Al-Yaqteen) informed me that he would collect from the Shiah in the open, and was returning to them in the secrecy’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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