قُلْتُ لَا أَزَالُ أُعْطِي الرَّجُلَ الْمَالَ فَيَقُولُ قَدْ هَلَكَ أَوْ ذَهَبَ فَمَا عِنْدَكَ حِيلَةٌ تَحْتَالُهَا لِي فَقَالَ أَعْطِ الرَّجُلَ أَلْفَ دِرْهَمٍ وَ أَقْرِضْهَا إِيَّاهُ وَ أَعْطِهِ عِشْرِينَ دِرْهَماً يَعْمَلُ بِالْمَالِ كُلِّهِ وَ تَقُولُ هَذَا رَأْسُ مَالِي وَ هَذَا رَأْسُ مَالِكَ فَمَا أَصَبْتَ مِنْهُمَا جَمِيعاً فَهُوَ بَيْنِي وَ بَيْنَكَ فَسَأَلْتُ أَبَا عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) عَنْ ذَلِكَ فَقَالَ لَا بَأْسَ بِهِ .
Translation
A number of our companions, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from Ibn Fazzal, from Sa’alba Bin Maymoun, from Abdul Malik Bin Utba who said, ‘I said, ‘I do not cease to give the goods to the man, and he is saying, ‘It has perished, or gone’. So what is a strategy with you to sort it out for me?’ So he (the planner) said, ‘Give the man one thousand Dirhams and lend it to him, and give him twenty Dirhams to work with all of the goods, and you should be saying, ‘This is the capital of my wealth, and this is the capital of your wealth, so whatever you attain from these two together, so it would be between me and you’. So I asked Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup> about that, so he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘There is no problem with it’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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