Al-Kafi 8748

Translation

Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Ali Bin Ismail, from Ali Bin Al Hakam, from Jahm Bin Abu Jahma, from Mo’tab who said, ‘Abu Abdullah^asws said to me, and the prices had increased in Al-Median: ‘How much food is there with us^asws?’ I said, ‘With us is what would suffice you^asws for a month or more’. He^asws said: ‘Take it out and sell it’. He (the narrator) said, ‘I said to him^asws, ‘And there is no food in Al-Medina’. He^asws said: ‘Sell it’. So when I had sold it, he^asws said: ‘Buy (food) along with the people day after day’. And he^asws said: ‘O Mo’tab! Make the daily provision for my^asws dependents to be half barley and half wheat, for Allah^azwj Knows that I^asws can feed them the wheat upon its own aspec, but I^asws love it that Allah^azwj should See me^asws that I^asws have managed the living in a good way’.

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