قلت: وَ أَنْ تَسْتَقْسِمُوا بِالْأَزْلامِ؟ قال: «كانوا في...

I said, ‘ and that which you are apportioning with the arrows ?’ He – asws said: ‘They used to, during the Pre-Islamic period, buying a camel in what is between ten people, and they would be dividing upon it with the pieces of iron, and these were ten – seven having marks, and three not having marks for it. As for those which had marks were (called), Al Afaz , and Al Tawa’im , and Al Nafis , and Al Halas , and Al Masbal , and Al Ma’la . And Al Raqeed .

And as for those not having marks for it were (called) Al Safeed , and Al Maneeh , and Al Wa’d ’. و كانوا يجيلون السهام بين عشرة، فمن خرج منها باسمه سهم من التي لا أنصباء لها الزم ثلث ثمن البعير، فلا يزالون كذلك حتى تقع السهام التي لا أنصباء لها إلى ثلاثة، فيلزمونهم ثمن البعير ثم ينحرونه، و يأكله السبعة الذين لم ينقدوا في ثمنه شيئا، و لم يطعموا منه الثلاثة الذين وفروا ثمنه شيئا، And they used to make the shares between ten, so the one whose name came out from it, an arrow which had not mark for it, would be necessitated to pay a third of the price of the camel.

So they would not be ceasing like that until there would occur the arrow which had not mark to it, to three (of them), and they would necessitate them the price of the camel. Then they would sacrifice it and the (other) seven would eat it, those who did not have to pay anything of the price, and they would not feed from it, the three those who had paid something of its price.