كَتَبْتُ إِلَى أَبِي الْحَسَنِ الرِّضَا ( عليه السلام ) أَنَّ لِي عَلَى رَجُلٍ ثَلَاثَةَ آلَافِ دِرْهَمٍ وَ كَانَتْ تِلْكَ الدَّرَاهِمُ تَنْفُقُ بَيْنَ النَّاسِ تِلْكَ الْأَيَّامَ وَ لَيْسَتْ تَنْفُقُ الْيَوْمَ فَلِي عَلَيْهِ تِلْكَ الدَّرَاهِمُ بِأَعْيَانِهَا أَوْ مَا يَنْفُقُ الْيَوْمَ بَيْنَ النَّاسِ قَالَ فَكَتَبَ إِلَيَّ لَكَ أَنْ تَأْخُذَ مِنْهُ مَا يَنْفُقُ بَيْنَ النَّاسِ كَمَا أَعْطَيْتَهُ مَا يَنْفُقُ بَيْنَ النَّاسِ .
Translation
Ali Bin Ibrahim, from Muhammad Bin Isa, from Yunus who said, ‘I wrote to Abu Al-Hassan Al-Reza<sup>asws</sup> that for me are three thousand Dirhams upon a man, and those Dirhams used to be spent between the people in those days (normal currency), and these are not being spent today (in circulation). So is there (a debt) upon him of those very Dirhams exactly or whatever is being spend (in circulation) today between the people?’ So he<sup>asws</sup> wrote to me: ‘For you is that you should take from him what is being spent (in circulation) between the people just as you had given it to him what was being spend (in circulation) between the people’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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