اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ وَ مَنْ كانَ فَقِيراً فَلْيَأْكُلْ بِالْمَعْرُوفِ فَقَالَ ذَلِكَ رَجُلٌ يَحْبِسُ نَفْسَهُ عَنِ الْمَعِيشَةِ فَلَا بَأْسَ أَنْ يَأْكُلَ بِالْمَعْرُوفِ إِذَا كَانَ يُصْلِحُ لَهُمْ أَمْوَالَهُمْ فَإِنْ كَانَ الْمَالُ قَلِيلًا فَلَا يَأْكُلْ مِنْهُ شَيْئاً قَالَ قُلْتُ أَ رَأَيْتَ قَوْلَ اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ وَ إِنْ تُخالِطُوهُمْ فَإِخْوانُكُمْ قَالَ تُخْرِجُ مِنْ أَمْوَالِهِمْ بِقَدْرِ مَا يَكْفِيهِمْ وَ تُخْرِجُ مِنْ مَالِكَ قَدْرَ مَا يَكْفِيكَ ثُمَّ تُنْفِقُهُ قُلْتُ أَ رَأَيْتَ إِنْ كَانُوا يَتَامَى صِغَاراً وَ كِبَاراً وَ بَعْضُهُمْ أَعْلَى كِسْوَةً مِنْ بَعْضٍ وَ بَعْضُهُمْ آكَلُ مِنْ بَعْضٍ وَ مَالُهُمْ جَمِيعاً فَقَالَ أَمَّا الْكِسْوَةُ فَعَلَى كُلِّ إِنْسَانٍ مِنْهُمْ ثَمَنُ كِسْوَتِهِ وَ أَمَّا [أَكْلُ] الطَّعَامِ فَاجْعَلُوهُ جَمِيعاً فَإِنْ الصَّغِيرَ يُوشِكُ أَنْ يَأْكُلَ مِثْلَ الْكَبِيرِ .
Translation
Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from Muhammad Bin Al Fazeyl, from Abu Al Sabah Al Kinany, (It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup> regarding the Words of Allah<sup>azwj</sup> Mighty and Majestic <span class="ibTxt"><a href="/#/books/quran:4#h6"><a href="/books/quran:4#h6">[4:6]</a></a> and whoever is poor, let him eat reasonably</span>. So he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘That is a man who withholds himself from the livelihood (in order to look after the orphans), so there is no problem if he were to consume with the reasonableness when it was correct for them (the orphans) for their wealth. So if the wealth was a little, so he should not eat anything from it’. He (the narrator) said, ‘I said, ‘What is your<sup>asws</sup> view of the Words of Allah<sup>azwj</sup> Mighty and Majestic <span class="ibTxt"><a href="/#/books/quran:2#h220"><a href="/books/quran:2#h220">[2:220]</a></a> and if you intermingle with them, so they are your brethren</span>?’ He<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘You take from their wealth by a measurement of what suffices for them, and you take from your wealth what suffices for you, then you spend’. I said, ‘What is your<sup>asws</sup> view if there were young and old orphans, and some of them were of bigger clothing that ones, and some of them eat more than the others, and their wealth is together?’. So he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘As for the clothing, so it is upon each person from them the price of his clothing, and as for the eating of the food, so make it all-inclusive, for the young are on the verge of eating similar to the old’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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