سَأَلْتُ عَبْداً صَالِحاً فَقُلْتُ جُعِلْتُ فِدَاكَ كُنَّا مُرَافِقِينَ لِقَوْمٍ بِمَكَّةَ فَارْتَحَلْنَا عَنْهُمْ وَ حَمَلْنَا بَعْضَ مَتَاعِهِمْ بِغَيْرِ عِلْمٍ وَ قَدْ ذَهَبَ الْقَوْمُ وَ لَا نَعْرِفُهُمْ وَ لَا نَعْرِفُ أَوْطَانَهُمْ فَقَدْ بَقِيَ الْمَتَاعُ عِنْدَنَا فَمَا نَصْنَعُ بِهِ قَالَ فَقَالَ تَحْمِلُونَهُ حَتَّى تَلْحَقُوهُمْ بِالْكُوفَةِ فَقَالَ يُونُسُ قُلْتُ لَهُ لَسْتُ أَعْرِفُهُمْ وَ لَا نَدْرِي كَيْفَ نَسْأَلُ عَنْهُمْ قَالَ فَقَالَ بِعْهُ وَ أَعْطِ ثَمَنَهُ أَصْحَابَكَ قَالَ فَقُلْتُ جُعِلْتُ فِدَاكَ أَهْلَ الْوَلَايَةِ قَالَ فَقَالَ نَعَمْ .
Translation
Ali Bin Ibrahim, from Muhammad Bin Isa, from Yunus Bin Abdul Rahman who said, ‘I asked Abd Salih<sup>asws</sup> (7<sup>th</sup> Imam<sup>asws</sup>), so I said, ‘May I be sacrificed for you<sup>asws</sup>! We had friends from the people of Makka, so when went away from them, we (found out later that) we were unknowingly carrying some of their goods with us, and the people had gone and we do not recognise them, nor do we recognise their home towns. So the goods remained with us, so what shall we do with these?’ So he (the narrator) said, ‘He<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘Keep carrying them until you meet them in Al-Kufa’. So Yunus (the narrator) said, I said to him<sup>asws</sup>, ‘We do not know them and we do not know how we should be asking around about them’. So he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘Sell it and give its price to your companions’. So I said, ‘May I be sacrificed for you<sup>asws</sup>! The people of your<sup>asws</sup> Wilayah?’ So he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘Yes’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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