So, please hand this amount over to ‘Umar ibn Yazid.

So, please hand this amount over to ‘Umar ibn Yazid.” When I searched in my father’s register, I found the following written therein: “Abu-Musa has one thousand and seven hundred dinars invested with me, and I made a profit of one hundred dinars for him. ‘Abdullah ibn Sinan and ‘Umar ibn Yazid have full acquaintance with the matter.”[^8] General Trend of Economic Activity The Holy Imams of the (‘a) founded a set of principles to be the general trend in the economic activities of their followers.

The first principle was to seek sustenance without indolence by exerting all possible effort to provide for oneself through work. Shaykh al-Kulayni has reported, through a valid chain of authority, that Sadir asked Imam al-Sadiq (‘a), “What is a man required to do to seek sustenance?” The Imam (‘a) answered: