Al-Kafi 9391

Translation

A number of our companions, from Ahmad Bin Abu Abdullah, from his father, from the one who narrated it, from Amro Bin Abu Al Miqdam, from Al Haris Bin Hazeera Al Azdy who said, ‘A man found some treasure in the era of Amir Al-Momineen^asws. So my father bought it from him for three hundred Dirhams and one hundred sheep followed by their young. So my mother blamed him and she said, ‘You have taken this for three hundred sheep – one hundred of their children, and one hundred of their own selves, and one hundred for what was in their bellies’. So my father was regretful, and he went in order to reduce it, but the man refused to him and said, ‘Take ten sheep from me, take twenty sheep from me’. So he tired him, So my father took the treasure and took out from it the price of a thousand sheep. So the other one came over to him and said, ‘Take your sheep and give me whatever you so desire to’. But he refused, so he discussed with him until he tired him. So he said, ‘I will harm you’. So he antagonised upon my father to Amir Al-Momineen^asws. So when my father related his story to Amir Al-Momineen^asws of his matter, he^asws said to the owner of the treasure: ‘Pay a fifth of whatever you have taken, for the fifth (tax) is upon you, for you are the one who found the treasure, and there is nothing upon the other one because he, rather (had paid) the price of (the treasure from) his sheep’.

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