قُلْتُ لِأَبِي بَصِيرٍ أُحِبُّ أَنْ تَسْأَلَ أَبَا عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) عَنْ رَجُلٍ اسْتَبْدَلَ قَوْصَرَتَيْنِ فِيهِمَا بُسْرٌ مَطْبُوخٌ بِقَوْصَرَةٍ فِيهَا تَمْرٌ مُشَقَّقٌ قَالَ فَسَأَلَهُ أَبُو بَصِيرٍ عَنْ ذَلِكَ فَقَالَ ( عليه السلام ) هَذَا مَكْرُوهٌ فَقَالَ أَبُو بَصِيرٍ وَ لِمَ يُكْرَهُ فَقَالَ كَانَ عَلِيُّ بْنُ أَبِي طَالِبٍ ( عليه السلام ) يَكْرَهُ أَنْ يَسْتَبْدِلَ وَسْقاً مِنْ تَمْرِ الْمَدِينَةِ بِوَسْقَيْنِ مِنْ تَمْرِ خَيْبَرَ لِأَنَّ تَمْرَ الْمَدِينَةِ أَدْوَنُهُمَا وَ لَمْ يَكُنْ عَلِيٌّ ( عليه السلام ) يَكْرَهُ الْحَلَالَ .
Translation
Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from Al Hassan Bin Mahboub, from Sayf Al Tammar who said, ‘I said to Abu Baseer, ‘I would like you to ask Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup> about a man who barters two baskets in which are unripened cooked dates with one basket in which are ston-free dates’. He (the narrator) said, ‘So Abu Baseer asked him<sup>asws</sup> about that, so he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘This is abhorrent’. So Abu Baseer said, ‘And why is it abhorrent?’ So he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘Ali<sup>asws</sup> Bin Abu Talib<sup>asws</sup> used to dislike it that one wasaq (a unit of measurement) of dates of Al-Medina should be exchanged for two wasaqs of dates of Khyber, because the dates of Al-Medina were the inferior of the two, and it never happened that Ali<sup>asws</sup> disliked the Permissible’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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