قُلْتُ لِأَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) إِنِّي صَاحِبُ نَخْلٍ فَخَبِّرْنِي بِحَدٍّ أَنْتَهِي إِلَيْهِ فِيهِ مِنَ الْوَفَاءِ فَقَالَ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) انْوِ الْوَفَاءَ فَإِنْ أَتَى عَلَى يَدِكَ وَ قَدْ نَوَيْتَ الْوَفَاءَ نُقْصَانٌ كُنْتَ مِنْ أَهْلِ الْوَفَاءِ وَ إِنْ نَوَيْتَ النُّقْصَانَ ثُمَّ أَوْفَيْتَ كُنْتَ مِنْ أَهْلِ النُّقْصَانِ .
Translation
From him, from Al Hajjal, from Ubeyd Bin Is’haq who said, ‘I said to Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup>, ‘I am an owner of plam trees, so inform me with a limit that I should end up to with regards to it from the full measurement’. So Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘Intend the full measurement. So if you give by your hand with a deficiency and you have intended the full measurement, you would be from the people of the full measurement; and if you were to intend the deficiency, then you (by fluke) give the full measurement, you would be from people who have measured out deficiently’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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