قُلْتُ لِأَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) يَجِيئُنِي الرَّجُلُ فَيَطْلُبُ الْعِينَةَ فَأَشْتَرِي لَهُ الْمَتَاعَ مُرَابَحَةً ثُمَّ أَبِيعُهُ إِيَّاهُ ثُمَّ أَشْتَرِيهِ مِنْهُ مَكَانِي قَالَ فَقَالَ إِذَا كَانَ بِالْخِيَارِ إِنْ شَاءَ بَاعَ وَ إِنْ شَاءَ لَمْ يَبِعْ وَ كُنْتَ أَنْتَ أَيْضاً بِالْخِيَارِ إِنْ شِئْتَ اشْتَرَيْتَ وَ إِنْ شِئْتَ لَمْ تَشْتَرِ فَلَا بَأْسَ قَالَ قُلْتُ فَإِنَّ أَهْلَ الْمَسْجِدِ يَزْعُمُونَ أَنَّ هَذَا فَاسِدٌ وَ يَقُولُونَ إِنْ جَاءَ بِهِ بَعْدَ أَشْهُرٍ صَلَحَ فَقَالَ إِنَّ هَذَا تَقْدِيمٌ وَ تَأْخِيرٌ فَلَا بَأْسَ بِهِ .
Translation
A number of our companions, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad Bin Isa, from Ibn Abu Umeyr, from Hafs Bin Sowqat, from Al Husayn Bin Al Munzar who said, ‘I said to Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup>, ‘The man comes over to me seeking the buy-back (الْعِينَةَ). So I buy the goods (from someone else) for him with a profit, then I sell these to him, then I buy these back from him in my place (instantly – takin back the returned goods)’. So he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘When he was with the choice, if he so desires to he sells or if he so desires to he does not sell, and you as well were with the choice, if you so desire to you buy, and if you so desire to you do not buy, so there is no problem’. He (the narrator) said, ‘I said, ‘But the people of the Masjid are alleging that this is invalid, and they are saying that if he comes with it after some months, it would be correct’. So he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘This is preceding and delaying, so there is no problem with it’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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