Al-Kāfi - The Book of Haj

Chapter: The Case of One Who Finds His Debtor in al-Haram (the sacred area) ِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ أَحْ٠َّدٍ عَنْ شَاذَانَ بْنِ الْخَلِيلِ أَبِي الْفَضْلِ عَنْ سَ٠ِهْرَانَ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيْهِ السَّلاَ٠) قَالَ سَأَلْتُهُ عَنْ رَجُلٍ لِي عَلَيْهِ ٠َالٌ فَغَابَ عَنِّي زَ٠َاناً فَرَأَيْتُهُ يَطُوفُ حَوْلَ الْكَعْبَةِ أَ فَأَتَقَاضَاهُ ٠َالِي قَالَ لا لا تُسَلِّ٠ْ عَلَيْهِ وَلا تُرَوِّعْهُ حَتَّى يَخْرُجَ ٠1.

A number of our people have narrated from Ahmad ibn Muhammad from Shadhan ibn al-Khalil abu al-Fadl from Sama‘ah ibn Mehran who has said the following: “I once asked abu ‘ Abd Allah (a.s.), about a man who owed to me a certain amount of goods and he was absent from me for a certain time. I saw him doing Tawaf around al-Ka‘bah. Can I ask him for payment?

He (the Imam) said, ‘No, do not offer him greeting of peace and do not frighten him until he gets out of al-Haram (the sacred area).’” جهول - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (17/103))