Al-Kafi 8833

Translation

Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father and Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, altogether from Ibm Abu Umeyr, from Hammad, from Al Halby who said, ‘Abu Abdullah^asws was asked about a man who submitted an advance payment of his Dirhams regarding five sealed containers of wheat or barley, to a named term, and the one upon whom was (the delivery of) the wheat and the barley was not able upon fulfilling the whole of it. So he asked the one with the right (buyer) if he could take half of the foodstuff, or a third, or less than that, or more, and he takes back the capital wealth (instead of) what remains from the foodstuff’. He^asws said: ‘There is no problem’. And for the saffron with regards to which the man submits the advance payment of Dirhams for twenty Misqal (a unit of measurement), or less than that or more, he^asws said: ‘There is no problem if he is no able, the one upon whom is the (delivery of) the saffron in giving him the entirety of his goods, he can take half of his right, or a third, or two-thirds, and he takes back the capital wealth of what remains from his right’.

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