سَأَلْتُ أَبَا عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) عَنِ الرَّجُلِ يَشْتَرِي طَعَاماً فَيَكُونُ أَحْسَنَ لَهُ وَ أَنْفَقَ لَهُ أَنْ يَبُلَّهُ مِنْ غَيْرِ أَنْ يَلْتَمِسَ زِيَادَتَهُ فَقَالَ إِنْ كَانَ بَيْعاً لَا يُصْلِحُهُ إِلَّا ذَلِكَ وَ لَا يُنَفِّقُهُ غَيْرُهُ مِنْ غَيْرِ أَنْ يَلْتَمِسَ فِيهِ زِيَادَةً فَلَا بَأْسَ وَ إِنْ كَانَ إِنَّمَا يَغُشُّ بِهِ الْمُسْلِمِينَ فَلَا يَصْلُحُ .
Translation
Ibn Abu Umeyr, from Hammad, from Al Halby who said, ‘I asked Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup> about the man who buys foodstuff, so it happen to be better for him and more saleable for him if he were to moisten it from other than seeking an increase in it. So he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘If selling it was not correct for it except by that and it cannot be sold apart from it, from without him seeking an increase in it, so there is no problem; but if he was rather cheating the Muslims by it, so it is not correct (due to the increase of the weight of the water)’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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