سَأَلْتُهُ عَنْ قَوْمٍ كَانَتْ لَهُمْ عُيُونٌ فِي أَرْضٍ قَرِيبَةٍ بَعْضُهَا مِنْ بَعْضٍ فَأَرَادَ الرَّجُلُ أَنْ يَجْعَلَ عَيْنَهُ أَسْفَلَ مِنْ مَوْضِعِهَا الَّتِي كَانَتْ عَلَيْهِ وَ بَعْضُ الْعُيُونِ إِذَا فُعِلَ ذَلِكَ أَضَرَّ بِالْبَقِيَّةِ مِنَ الْعُيُونِ وَ بَعْضٌ لَا يُضِرُّ مِنْ شِدَّةِ الْأَرْضِ قَالَ فَقَالَ مَا كَانَ فِي مَكَانٍ شَدِيدٍ فَلَا يُضِرُّ وَ مَا كَانَ فِي أَرْضٍ رِخْوَةٍ بَطْحَاءَ فَإِنَّهُ يُضِرُّ وَ إِنْ عَرَضَ عَلَى جَارِهِ أَنْ يَضَعَ عَيْنَهُ كَمَا وَضَعَهَا وَ هُوَ عَلَى مِقْدَارٍ وَاحِدٍ قَالَ إِنْ تَرَاضَيَا فَلَا يَضُرُّ وَ قَالَ يَكُونُ بَيْنَ الْعَيْنَيْنِ أَلْفُ ذِرَاعٍ .
Translation
Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Muhammad Bin Hafs, from a man, from Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup>, said, ‘I asked him<sup>asws</sup> about a group of people who had springs for them in a land nearby to each other. So the man intended that he makes his spring to be lower than its place which its was upon, and if he were to do that, some of the remaining springs would be harmed and some of the springs would not be harmed due to the solidity of the land’. He (the narrator) said: ‘So he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘Whatever was in a solid place, so it would not be harmed, and whatever was in a soft sandy land would be harmed. And he should ask his neighbour if he could place his spring just as he has placed it, and it would be upon a measurement of one. If he pleases him, so there is no harm done’. And he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘There should happen to be between the two springs (a distance of) a thousand cubits’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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