Al-Kafi 9369

Translation

Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Al Hassan Bin Al Husayn Al Lului, from Safwan Bin Yahya, from Abdul Rahman Bin Al Hajjaj who said, ‘A man from our companions was in Al-Medina, so he was constrained by severe constraints, and his state became difficult. So Abu Abdullah^asws said to him: ‘Go and take a shop in the market and spread out your spread sheet, and let there be with you a jug of water, and bind (it to) the door of your shop’. He (the narrator) said, ‘So the man did so, and remained like that for as long as Allah^azwj so Desired. Then travelling merchants from Egypt came over, so they cast their merchandise, each man from them with a known person of his and with a friend of his until the shops were filled up. There remained one man from them who could not come across a shop to cast his goods therein. So the people of the market said to him, ‘Over there is a man with whom there is no problem, and there are no goods in his shop, if only you could cast your goods in his shop’. So he went to him and said to him, ‘Will you cast my goods in your shop’. He said, ‘Yes’. So the travelling merchants went out and the man went out along with them, and left the goods with him. So our companion sold them and sent his price to him. So whenever the travelling merchants of Egypt prepared to go out from Egypt, he would send his goods to him, so he would sell them and return its price to him. So when that man saw that, he stayed in Egypt and went on sending the goods to him, and equipped upon him’. He (the narrator) said: ‘Thus he attained a lot of wealth and was enriched’.

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