قُلْتُ لِأَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) الرَّجُلُ يَجِيءُ فَيَقُولُ اشْتَرِ هَذَا الثَّوْبَ وَ أُرْبِحَكَ كَذَا وَ كَذَا فَقَالَ أَ لَيْسَ إِنْ شَاءَ أَخَذَ وَ إِنْ شَاءَ تَرَكَ قُلْتُ بَلَى قَالَ لَا بَأْسَ بِهِ إِنَّمَا يُحَلِّلُ الْكَلَامُ وَ يُحَرِّمُ الْكَلَامُ .
Translation
Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Ibn Abu Umeyr, from Yahya Bin Al Hajjaj, from Khalid Bin Najeeh who said, ‘I said to Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup>, ‘The man comes over to me, so he is saying, ‘Buy this cloth for me and I shall profit you such and such’. So he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘Is it not that if he so desires to he takes, and if he so desires to he leaves it?’ I said, ‘Yes’. He<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘There is no problem with it. But rather, the speech makes it Permissible and the speech makes it Prohibited (the oral representations)’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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