سَأَلْتُ أَبَا عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) عَنِ الْقَوْمِ يَدْخُلُونَ السَّفِينَةَ يَشْتَرُونَ الطَّعَامَ فَيَتَسَاوَمُونَ بِهَا ثُمَّ يَشْتَرِي رَجُلٌ مِنْهُمْ فَيَتَسَاءَلُونَهُ فَيُعْطِيهِمْ مَا يُرِيدُونَ مِنَ الطَّعَامِ فَيَكُونُ صَاحِبُ الطَّعَامِ هُوَ الَّذِي يَدْفَعُهُ إِلَيْهِمْ وَ يَقْبِضُ الثَّمَنَ قَالَ لَا بَأْسَ مَا أَرَاهُمْ إِلَّا وَ قَدْ شَرِكُوهُ فَقُلْتُ إِنَّ صَاحِبَ الطَّعَامِ يَدْعُو كَيَّالًا فَيَكِيلُهُ لَنَا وَ لَنَا أُجَرَاءُ فَيُعَيِّرُونَهُ فَيَزِيدُ وَ يَنْقُصُ قَالَ لَا بَأْسَ مَا لَمْ يَكُنْ شَيْءٌ كَثِيرٌ غَلَطٌ .
Translation
Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Muhammad Bin Al Husayn, from Safwan, from Ibn Muskann, from Is’haq Al Madainy who said, ‘I asked Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup> about the people who are entering the ship, so they are buying the foodstuff, and they are haggling with it. Then a man from them buys it, so they are asking him whatever that want from the foodstuff. So he becomes the owner of the food, the one handed it over to them and took the price’. He<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘There is no problem. I<sup>asws</sup> do not see them except that they had participated him’. So I said, ‘If the owner of the food invites a measurer, so he measures it out for us, and for us are employees who are conducting it, so there are increases and decreases’. He<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘There is no problem for as long as there are not many errors’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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