سَأَلْتُ أَبَا الْحَسَنِ ( عليه السلام ) عَنِ الْعِينَةِ وَ قُلْتُ إِنَّ عَامَّةَ تُجَّارِنَا الْيَوْمَ يُعْطُونَ الْعِينَةَ فَأَقُصُّ عَلَيْكَ كَيْفَ تُعْمَلُ قَالَ هَاتِ قُلْتُ يَأْتِينَا الرَّجُلُ الْمُسَاوِمُ يُرِيدُ الْمَالَ فَيُسَاوِمُنَا وَ لَيْسَ عِنْدَنَا مَتَاعٌ فَيَقُولُ أُرْبِحُكَ دَهْ يَازْدَهْ وَ أَقُولُ أَنَا دَهْ دَوَازْدَهْ فَلَا نَزَالُ نَتَرَاوَضُ حَتَّى نَتَرَاوَضَ عَلَى أَمْرٍ فَإِذَا فَرَغْنَا قُلْتُ لَهُ أَيُّ مَتَاعٍ أَحَبُّ إِلَيْكَ أَنْ أَشْتَرِيَ لَكَ فَيَقُولُ الْحَرِيرُ لِأَنَّهُ لَا نَجِدُ شَيْئاً أَقَلَّ وَضِيعَةً مِنْهُ فَأَذْهَبُ وَ قَدْ قَاوَلْتُهُ مِنْ غَيْرِ مُبَايَعَةٍ فَقَالَ أَ لَيْسَ إِنْ شِئْتَ لَمْ تُعْطِهِ وَ إِنْ شَاءَ لَمْ يَأْخُذْ مِنْكَ قُلْتُ بَلَى قَالَ فَأَذْهَبُ فَأَشْتَرِي لَهُ ذَلِكَ الْحَرِيرَ وَ أُمَاكِسُ بِقَدْرِ جُهْدِي ثُمَّ أَجِيءُ بِهِ إِلَى بَيْتِي فَأُبَايِعُهُ فَرُبَّمَا ازْدَدْتُ عَلَيْهِ الْقَلِيلَ عَلَى الْمُقَاوَلَةِ وَ رُبَّمَا أَعْطَيْتُهُ عَلَى مَا قَاوَلْتُهُ وَ رُبَّمَا تَعَاسَرْنَا فَلَمْ يَكُنْ شَيْءٌ فَإِذَا اشْتَرَى مِنِّي لَمْ يَجِدْ أَحَداً أَغْلَى بِهِ مِنَ الَّذِي اشْتَرَيْتُهُ مِنْهُ فَيَبِيعُهُ مِنْهُ فَيَجِيءُ ذَلِكَ فَيَأْخُذُ الدَّرَاهِمَ فَيَدْفَعُهَا إِلَيْهِ وَ رُبَّمَا جَاءَ لِيُحِيلَهُ عَلَيَّ فَقَالَ لَا تَدْفَعْهَا إِلَّا إِلَى صَاحِبِ الْحَرِيرِ قُلْتُ وَ رُبَّمَا لَمْ يَتَّفِقْ بَيْنِي وَ بَيْنَهُ الْبَيْعُ بِهِ وَ أَطْلُبُ إِلَيْهِ فَيَقْبَلُهُ مِنِّي فَقَالَ أَ وَ لَيْسَ إِنْ شَاءَ لَمْ يَفْعَلْ وَ إِنْ شِئْتَ أَنْتَ لَمْ تَرُدَّ قُلْتُ بَلَى لَوْ أَنَّهُ هَلَكَ فَمِنْ مَالِي قَالَ لَا بَأْسَ بِهَذَا إِذَا أَنْتَ لَمْ تَعْدُ هَذَا فَلَا بَأْسَ بِهِ .
Translation
Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from Ali Bin Al Hakam, from Ismail Bin Abdul Khaliq who said, ‘I asked Abu Al-Hassan<sup>asws</sup> about the buy-back (الْعِينَةَ) and I said, ‘The merchants these days are giving the buy-back (الْعِينَةَ)’. So I can relate to you how we deal’. He<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘Give it (explanation)’. I said, ‘The haggling man comes over to us wanting the goods, so we haggle and there are no goods with us. So he is saying, ‘I will profit you ten/eleven (Persian)’, and I am saying, ‘And I, ten/eleven (as well)’. So we do not cease to bargain until we agree upon one bargain. So when we are free, I say, ‘Which goods are beloved to you that I should buy for you?’ So he is saying, ‘The silk, because we cannot find anything less in wastage than it’. So I go, having given my word without having sold’. So he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘Is it not that if you so desire to, you do not give it, and if he so desires to, he does not take from you?’ I said, ‘Yes’. He (the narrator) said, ‘So I go and I buy that silk for him, and I bargain in accordance to my striving. Then I come over with it to my house, and I sell it to him. So, sometimes I increase it (the price) a little bit upon him over the oral contract, and sometimes I give it to him upon what I had orally contracted, and sometimes we get into difficulties, so nothing happens. So when he buys from me, and he does not find anyone more expensive with it than that the one whom I had bought it from, so he sells it to him. So he comes and takes the Dirhams, and he hands it over to him; and sometimes he comes in order to assign it upon me’. So he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘You cannot hand it over to anyone except the owner of the silk’. I said, ‘And sometimes there is no concordance between me and him to sell with, and I seek to him, and he accepts from me’. So he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘Or is it not that if he so desires to he does not do it, and if you so desire to, you do not return it?’ I said, ‘Yes. If he were to dies, so it would be from my wealth’. He<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘There is no problem with this. When you do not exceed this, so there is no problem with it’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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