قُلْتُ لِأَبِي الْحَسَنِ ( عليه السلام ) إِنَّ لَنَا أَكَرَةً فَنُزَارِعُهُمْ فَيَجِيئُونَ وَ يَقُولُونَ لَنَا قَدْ حَزَرْنَا هَذَا الزَّرْعَ بِكَذَا وَ كَذَا فَأَعْطُونَاهُ وَ نَحْنُ نَضْمَنُ لَكُمْ أَنْ نُعْطِيَكُمْ حِصَّتَكُمْ عَلَى هَذَا الْحَزْرِ فَقَالَ وَ قَدْ بَلَغَ قُلْتُ نَعَمْ قَالَ لَا بَأْسَ بِهَذَا قُلْتُ فَإِنَّهُ يَجِيءُ بَعْدَ ذَلِكَ فَيَقُولُ لَنَا إِنَّ الْحَزْرَ لَمْ يَجِئْ كَمَا حَزَرْتُ وَ قَدْ نَقَصَ قَالَ فَإِذَا زَادَ يَرُدُّ عَلَيْكُمْ قُلْتُ لَا قَالَ فَلَكُمْ أَنْ تَأْخُذُوهُ بِتَمَامِ الْحَزْرِ كَمَا أَنَّهُ إِذَا زَادَ كَانَ لَهُ كَذَلِكَ إِذَا نَقَصَ كَانَ عَلَيْهِ.
Translation
Ali Bin Muhammad, from Muhammad Bin Ahmad, from Muhammad Bin Isa, from one of his companions who said, ‘I said to Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup>, ‘For us are hired workers, so we make them cultivate, so they are answering and are saying to us, ‘We have estimated this plantation with such and such. So give it to us and we would guarantee for you that we would give you your share upon this estimate’. So he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘A has it matured?’ I said, ‘Yes’. He<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘There is no problem with this’. I said, ‘So he comes after that and he is saying to us, ‘The estimated did not come out to be as we had estimated it to be, and it is deficient’. He<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘So when it is more, does he return to you?’ I said, ‘No’. He<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘So for you is that you take it with the complete estimated just as when it is more it would be for him, similar to that, when it is deficient it is upon him’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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