قُلْتُ لِأَبِي الْحَسَنِ ( عليه السلام ) رُبَّمَا اشْتَرَيْتُ الشَّيْءَ بِحَضْرَةِ أَبِي فَأَرَى مِنْهُ مَا أَغْتَمُّ بِهِ فَقَالَ تَنَكَّبْهُ وَ لَا تَشْتَرِ بِحَضْرَتِهِ فَإِذَا كَانَ لَكَ عَلَى رَجُلٍ حَقٌّ فَقُلْ لَهُ فَلْيَكْتُبْ وَ كَتَبَ فُلَانُ بْنُ فُلَانٍ بِخَطِّهِ وَ أَشْهَدَ اللَّهَ عَلَى نَفْسِهِ وَ كَفَى بِاللَّهِ شَهِيداً فَإِنَّهُ يُقْضَى فِي حَيَاتِهِ أَوْ بَعْدَ وَفَاتِهِ.
Translation
A number of our companions, from Sahl Bin Ziyad, from Yaqoub Bin Yazeed, from Zakariyya Al Khazzaz, from Yahya Al Haza’a who said, ‘I said to Abu Al-Hassan<sup>asws</sup>, ‘Sometimes I buy the thing in the presence of my father, so I see from him what I get saddened with’. So he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘Avoid him and do not buy in his presence. So when there was a right for you upon a man, so say to him, ‘So let us write (an agreement)’, and let so and so write in his own handwriting, and keeps Allah<sup>azwj</sup> as a witness upon himself and suffice with Allah<sup>azwj</sup> as a Witness, for he would fulfil it during his lifetime or after his death’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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