قَالَ رَجُلٌ إِنِّي قَدْ أَصَبْتُ مَالًا وَ إِنِّي قَدْ خِفْتُ فِيهِ عَلَى نَفْسِي فَلَوْ أَصَبْتُ صَاحِبَهُ دَفَعْتُهُ إِلَيْهِ وَ تَخَلَّصْتُ مِنْهُ قَالَ فَقَالَ لَهُ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) وَ اللَّهِ إِنْ لَوْ أَصَبْتَهُ كُنْتَ تَدْفَعُهُ إِلَيْهِ قَالَ إِي وَ اللَّهِ قَالَ فَأَنَا وَ اللَّهِ مَا لَهُ صَاحِبٌ غَيْرِي قَالَ فَاسْتَحْلَفَهُ أَنْ يَدْفَعَهُ إِلَى مَنْ يَأْمُرُهُ قَالَ فَحَلَفَ قَالَ فَاذْهَبْ فَاقْسِمْهُ فِي إِخْوَانِكَ وَ لَكَ الْأَمْنُ مِمَّا خِفْتَ مِنْهُ قَالَ فَقَسَمْتُهُ بَيْنَ إِخْوَانِي .
Translation
Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Muhammad Bin Ahmad, from Musa Bin Umar, from Al Hajjal, from Dawood Bin Abu Yazeed, (It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup>, said, ‘A man said, ‘I came across some wealth, and I feared with regards to it upon myself, so I said to myself, ‘If only I could come across its owner, I would hand it over to him, and be finished from it’. So Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup> said to him: ‘By Allah<sup>azwj</sup>! If you were to come across him you would hand it over to him?’ He said, ‘Yes, by Allah<sup>azwj</sup>!’ He<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘So it is I<sup>asws</sup>, by Allah<sup>azwj</sup>, there is no other owner apart from myself’. He (the narrator) said, ‘So he<sup>asws</sup> made him swear an oath that he would hand it over to the ones he<sup>asws</sup> commands him to. So he swore an oath. He<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘So go and distribute it among your brethren, and for you is the security from what you feared from’. He said, ‘So I distributed it among my brethren’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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