سَأَلْتُ أَبَا عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) عَنْ رَجُلٍ أَصَابَ مَالًا مِنْ عَمَلِ بَنِي أُمَيَّةَ وَ هُوَ يَتَصَدَّقُ مِنْهُ وَ يَصِلُ مِنْهُ قَرَابَتَهُ وَ يَحُجُّ لِيُغْفَرَ لَهُ مَا اكْتَسَبَ وَ هُوَ يَقُولُ إِنَّ الْحَسَناتِ يُذْهِبْنَ السَّيِّئاتِ فَقَالَ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) إِنَّ الْخَطِيئَةَ لَا تُكَفِّرُ الْخَطِيئَةَ وَ لَكِنَّ الْحَسَنَةَ تَحُطُّ الْخَطِيئَةَ ثُمَّ قَالَ إِنْ كَانَ خَلَطَ الْحَلَالَ بِالْحَرَامِ فَاخْتَلَطَا جَمِيعاً فَلَا يَعْرِفُ الْحَلَالَ مِنَ الْحَرَامِ فَلَا بَأْسَ .
Translation
A number of our companions, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from Ibn Mahboub, from Abu Ayoub, from Sama’at who said, ‘I asked Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup> about a man who attained wealth from working for the Clan of Umayya and he was giving in charity from it and maintaining relationships with his relatives from it, and performing Hajj in order to be Forgiven for it, what he had earned, and he is saying, ‘The good deeds remove the evils deeds’. So Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘The errors do not expiate the errors, but the good deeds expiate the errors’. Then he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘If the Permissible was mixed up with the Prohibited (wealth), so the entirety of it was mixed up, and the Permissible is no longer recognised from the Prohibited, so there is no problem’.
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