Al-Kafi 9108

Translation

Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Muhammad Bin Al Husayn, from Safwan, from Abdul Rahman Bin Al Hajjaj who said, ‘I asked him^asws about the exchange and I said to him^asws, ‘Sometimes the friends hurry and go out, so we are not able (to acquire) the Damascus (Dirhams) and the Basran (Dihrams), and rather they only allow with a <span class="iTxt">Sabour</span> of Damascus and the Basran (<span class="iTxt">Sabour</span>)’. So he^asws said:’And what are the friends?’ So I said, ‘The group of people who are associating and they are gathering for the going out. So when they make haste, and sometimes were are not able upon (acquiring) the Damascus and the Basran (Dirham). So we send with the proceeds and they exchange it at a thousand and fifty Dirhams from it with a thousand from the Dasmascus and the Basran (Dirhams)’. So he^asws said: ‘There is no goodness in this. Why are you not placing gold in place of its excess?’ So I said to him^asws, ‘Can I buy a thousand Dirhams and Dinars with two thousand Dirhams’. So he^asws said: ‘There is no problem with that. My^asws father^asws used to be more accomplishing upon the people of Al-Medina that I^asws was, and he^asws was saying this. So they were saying, ‘But rather, this is fleeing’. If a man would come with Dinars, he^asws would not give a thousand Dirham, and if he came with a thousand Dirhams, he^asws would give a thousand Dinars, and he^asws was saying to them: ‘The best thing is to flee from the Prohibitions to the Permissibles’. <span style="font-size: small">Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, and Muhammad Bin Ismail, from Al Fazl Bin Shazaan, from Safwaan  Bin Yahya, and Ibn Abu Umeyr, from Abdul Rahman Bin Al Hajjaj</span> – similar to it’.

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