Al-Kafi 8816

Translation

Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Muhammad Bin Al Husayn, from Ali Bin Al Hakam, from Al A’ala Bin Razeyn, (It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah^asws, said, ‘I said to him^asws, ‘I passed by the man so he presented the foodstuff to me, and he was saying, ‘You have come across the foodstuff what you needed’. So I am saying to him, ‘Bring it out, I shall give you such and such a price per Kurra (a unit of measurement). So when you bring it out, I shall look at it, so it is was as per my requirement, I shall take it, and if does not happen to be from my requirements, I shall leave it’. He^asws said: ‘This is haggling. There is no problem with it’. I said, ‘So I say to him, ‘Isolate fifty Kurra from it’, or less or more by his measurement, so it is (sometimes) more, and (sometimes) less, and more often it is more. Fo whom it is?’ He^asws said: ‘It is for you’. Then he^asws said: ‘I^asws sent Mo’tab or Sallama, so they buy for some foodstuff for us^asws, and it came to me more upon us^asws with two Dinars. So we fed our^asws families by it with a measure which we^asws recognised’. So I said to him^asws, ‘Did you^asws know its owner?’ He^asws said: ‘Yes. We^asws returned (the extra from) it to him’. So I said, ‘May Allah^saww have Mercy on you^asws! You^asws are issuing a Verdict to me that the increase is for me, but you^asws have returned (the extra from) it to the seller because you^asws knew that it belongs to him’ He^asws said: ‘Yes. But rather, that is an error of the people, because that which we^asws bought with, rather that was with eight Dirhams, or nine’. Then he^asws said: ‘however, in our^asws it was measured again (so it was confirmed that there came extra from the seller)’.

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