مَرَرْتُ مَعَ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) فِي سُوقِ النُّحَاسِ فَقُلْتُ جُعِلْتُ فِدَاكَ هَذَا النُّحَاسُ أَيُّ شَيْءٍ أَصْلُهُ فَقَالَ فِضَّةٌ إِلَّا أَنَّ الْأَرْضَ أَفْسَدَتْهَا فَمَنْ قَدَرَ عَلَى أَنْ يُخْرِجَ الْفَسَادَ مِنْهَا انْتَفَعَ بِهَا.
Translation
And from him, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from Ibn Fazzal, from Abdullah Bin Abdul Rahman, from Yahya Al Halby, from Al Sumaly who said, ‘I passed by along with Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup> in a market of the copper traders, so I said, ‘May I be sacrificed for you<sup>asws</sup>! This copper, which this is its origin?’ So he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘Silver, except that the land spoils it. So the one who is able upon extracting the spoilt from it, would benefit by it’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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