سَأَلْتُهُ عَنْ بَيْعِ الثَّمَرَةِ هَلْ يَصْلُحُ شِرَاؤُهَا قَبْلَ أَنْ يَخْرُجَ طَلْعُهَا فَقَالَ لَا إِلَّا أَنْ يَشْتَرِيَ مَعَهَا شَيْئاً غَيْرَهَا رَطْبَةً أَوْ بَقْلًا فَيَقُولَ أَشْتَرِي مِنْكَ هَذِهِ الرُّطْبَةَ وَ هَذَا النَّخْلَ وَ هَذَا الشَّجَرَ بِكَذَا وَ كَذَا فَإِنْ لَمْ تَخْرُجِ الثَّمَرَةُ كَانَ رَأْسُ مَالِ الْمُشْتَرِي فِي الرُّطْبَةِ وَ الْبَقْلِ وَ سَأَلْتُهُ عَنِ وَرَقِ الشَّجَرِ هَلْ يَصْلُحُ شِرَاؤُهُ ثَلَاثَ خَرَطَاتٍ أَوْ أَرْبَعَ خَرَطَاتٍ فَقَالَ إِذَا رَأَيْتَ الْوَرَقَ فِي شَجَرَةٍ فَاشْتَرِ فِيهِ مَا شِئْتَ مِنْ خَرْطَةٍ .
Translation
A number of our companions, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad Bin Khalid, from Usman Bin Isa, from Sama’at who said, ‘I asked him<sup>asws</sup> about selling the fruit, is buying it correct before they sprout?’ So he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘No, except if you buy something else along with it, dates or vegetables, so you should be saying, ‘I hereby buy these dates, and this palm tree, and this tree with such and such (a price). So if the fruits have not come out yet, the capital wealth of the buyer would be in the dates, and the vegetables’. And I asked him<sup>asws</sup> about the leaves of the tree, is its buying correct for three crops or four crops?’ So he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘When you see the leaf in a tree, so you can buy regarding it whatever you so desire to, from a crop’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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