كُنْتُ جَالِساً عِنْدَ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) فَقَالَ لَهُ مُعَمَّرٌ الزَّيَّاتُ إِنَّا نَشْتَرِي الزَّيْتَ فِي زِقَاقِهِ فَيُحْسَبُ لَنَا نُقْصَانٌ فِيهِ لِمَكَانِ الزِّقَاقِ فَقَالَ إِنْ كَانَ يَزِيدُ وَ يَنْقُصُ فَلَا بَأْسَ وَ إِنْ كَانَ يَزِيدُ وَ لَا يَنْقُصُ فَلَا تَقْرَبْهُ .
Translation
Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from Muhammad Bin Ismail, from Hanaan who said, ‘I was seated in the presence of Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup>, so Moamar the oil merchant said to him<sup>asws</sup>, ‘We buy the oil in its alley way, so he measures it out for us with a deficiency in it due to the placing of the alleyway’. So he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘If it was (sometimes) excess and deficient, so there is no problem; and if it was excess and not (never) deficient, so do not go near it’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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