كَتَبْتُ إِلَى أَبِي مُحَمَّدٍ ( عليه السلام ) رَجُلٌ كَانَتْ لَهُ قَنَاةٌ فِي قَرْيَةٍ فَأَرَادَ رَجُلٌ أَنْ يَحْفِرَ قَنَاةً أُخْرَى إِلَى قَرْيَةٍ لَهُ كَمْ يَكُونُ بَيْنَهُمَا فِي الْبُعْدِ حَتَّى لَا يُضِرَّ بِالْأُخْرَى فِي الْأَرْضِ إِذَا كَانَتْ صُلْبَةً أَوْ رِخْوَةً فَوَقَّعَ ( عليه السلام ) عَلَى حَسَبِ أَنْ لَا يُضِرَّ إِحْدَاهُمَا بِالْأُخْرَى إِنْ شَاءَ اللَّهُ قَالَ وَ كَتَبْتُ إِلَيْهِ ( عليه السلام ) رَجُلٌ كَانَتْ لَهُ رَحًى عَلَى نَهَرِ قَرْيَةٍ وَ الْقَرْيَةُ لِرَجُلٍ فَأَرَادَ صَاحِبُ الْقَرْيَةِ أَنْ يَسُوقَ إِلَى قَرْيَتِهِ الْمَاءَ فِي غَيْرِ هَذَا النَّهَرِ وَ يُعَطِّلَ هَذِهِ الرَّحَى أَ لَهُ ذَلِكَ أَمْ لَا فَوَقَّعَ ( عليه السلام ) يَتَّقِي اللَّهَ وَ يَعْمَلُ فِي ذَلِكَ بِالْمَعْرُوفِ وَ لَا يَضُرُّ أَخَاهُ الْمُؤْمِنَ .
Translation
Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Muhammad Bin Al Husayn who said, ‘I wrote to Abu Muhammad<sup>asws</sup>, ‘A man had a canal for him in a town, so a man intended that he digs out another canal to town of his. How much should there be between the two regarding the remoteness until they do not harm with the other in the land when it was solid or soft?’ So he<sup>asws</sup> signed: ‘Upon a reckoning that one of the two would not harm the others, if Allah<sup>ajwj</sup> so Desires’. He (the narrator) said, ‘And I wrote to him<sup>asws</sup>, ‘A man had a flour mill upon a river of a town, and the town was for (another) man. So the owner of the town intended that he would divert the water to his town to be in other than this river, and disrupt the flour mill. Is that for him or not? ‘So he<sup>asws</sup> signed: ‘He should fear Allah<sup>ajwj</sup> and work with regards to that with the goodness and he should not harm his Believing brother’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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