سَأَلْتُ أَبَا عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) فَقُلْتُ سَاوَمْتُ رَجُلًا بِجَارِيَةٍ لَهُ فَبَاعَنِيهَا بِحُكْمِي فَقَبَضْتُهَا مِنْهُ عَلَى ذَلِكَ ثُمَّ بَعَثْتُ إِلَيْهِ بِأَلْفِ دِرْهَمٍ وَ قُلْتُ لَهُ هَذِهِ الْأَلْفُ حُكْمِي عَلَيْكَ فَأَبَى أَنْ يَقْبَلَهَا مِنِّي وَ قَدْ كُنْتُ مَسِسْتُهَا قَبْلَ أَنْ أَبْعَثَ إِلَيْهِ بِأَلْفِ دِرْهَمٍ قَالَ فَقَالَ أَرَى أَنْ تُقَوَّمَ الْجَارِيَةُ بِقِيمَةٍ عَادِلَةٍ فَإِنْ كَانَ ثَمَنُهَا أَكْثَرَ مِمَّا بَعَثْتَ إِلَيْهِ كَانَ عَلَيْكَ أَنْ تَرُدَّ إِلَيْهِ مَا نَقَصَ مِنَ الْقِيمَةِ وَ إِنْ كَانَتْ قِيمَتُهَا أَقَلَّ مِمَّا بَعَثْتَ بِهِ إِلَيْهِ فَهُوَ لَهُ قَالَ فَقُلْتُ أَ رَأَيْتَ إِنْ أَصَبْتُ بِهَا عَيْباً بَعْدَ مَا مَسِسْتُهَا قَالَ لَيْسَ لَكَ أَنْ تَرُدَّهَا وَ لَكَ أَنْ تَأْخُذَ قِيمَةَ مَا بَيْنَ الصِّحَّةِ وَ الْعَيْبِ .
Translation
A number of our companions, from Sahl Bin Ziyad and Ahmad Bin Muhammad altogether, from Al Hassan Bin Mahboub, from Rafa’at Al Nakhhas who said, ‘I asked Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup>, so I said, ‘A man had a slave girl who he sold to me with my order. So I took possession of her from him, upon that. Then I sent over a thousand Dirhams to him and I said to him, ‘This thousand is for my order upon you’. But, he refused to accept it from me, and I had already touched her before I sent the thousand Dirhams to him’. He (the narrator) said, ‘So he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘I<sup>asws</sup> view that you should evaluate the slave girl with a fair price. So if it was that her value was more than what you had sent to him, it would be upon you to return to him whatever was deficient from the value; and if it was that her value was less than what you had sent to him, so it is for him’. He (the narrator) said, ‘What is your view if I were to find a defact with her after having touched her?’ He<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘It is not for you to return her, and for you would be to take what is between the correct and the defact (a discount)’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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