سَأَلْتُ أَبَا جَعْفَرٍ ( عليه السلام ) عَنْ قَوْلِ عَلِيٍّ ( عليه السلام ) فِي الرَّهْنِ يَتَرَادَّانِ الْفَضْلَ فَقَالَ كَانَ عَلِيٌّ ( عليه السلام ) يَقُولُ ذَلِكَ قُلْتُ كَيْفَ يَتَرَادَّانِ فَقَالَ إِنْ كَانَ الرَّهْنُ أَفْضَلَ مِمَّا رُهِنَ بِهِ ثُمَّ عَطِبَ رَدَّ الْمُرْتَهِنُ الْفَضْلَ عَلَى صَاحِبِهِ وَ إِنْ كَانَ لَا يَسْوَى رَدَّ الرَّاهِنُ مَا نَقَصَ مِنْ حَقِّ الْمُرْتَهِنِ قَالَ وَ كَذَلِكَ كَانَ قَوْلُ عَلِيٍّ ( عليه السلام ) فِي الْحَيَوَانِ وَ غَيْرِ ذَلِكَ .
Translation
A number of our companions, from Sahl Bin Ziyad, and Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from Ibn Mahboub, from Abu Hamza who said, ‘I asked Abu Ja’far<sup>asws</sup> about the words of Ali<sup>asws</sup> regarding the mortgge security deposit, whether both parties would return the excess. So he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘Ali<sup>asws</sup> was saying that’. I said, ‘How would they both be returning (the excess)?’ So he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘If it was such that the mortgage was more than what was deposited with, then it (security deposit) was damaged, the mortgagee would return the excess upon his companion; but if it was such that it was not equal, the mortgagor would return whatever was deficient from the right of the mortgagee. And like that was the word of Ali<sup>asws</sup> regarding the animals and other than that’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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