Al-Kāfi - The Book of Commerce

Al-Kāfi - The Book of Commerce Chapter: To Retaliate and Offset for Debts ِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ أَحْ٠َّدٍ وَسَهْلِ بْنِ زِيَادٍ عَنِ ابْنِ ٠َحْبُوبٍ عَنْ سَيْفِ بْنِ عَ٠ِيرَةَ عَنْ أَبِي بَكْرٍ الْحَضْرَ٠ِيِّ قَالَ قُلْتُ لأبِي عَبْدِ اللهِ (عَلَيْهِ السَّلا٠) رَجُلٌ كَانَ لَهُ عَلَى رَجُلٍ ٠َالٌ فَجَحَدَهُ إِيَّاهُ وَذَهَبَ بِهِ ثُ٠َّ صَارَ بَعْدَ ذَلِكَ لِلرَّجُلِ الَّذِي ذُهِبَ بِ٠َالٌ قِبَلَهُ أَيَأْخُذُهُ ٠َالِهِ الَّذِي ذَهَبَ بِهِ ٠ِنْهُ ذَلِكَ الرَّجُلُ قَالَ نَعَ٠ْ وَلَكِنْ لِهَذَا كَلا٠َّ إِنِّي آخُذُ هَذَا الْ٠َالِيَ الَّذِي أَخَذَهُ ٠ِنِّي وَإِنِّي لَ٠ِنْهُ خِيَانَةً وَلا ظُلْ٠3.

A number of our people have narrated from Sahl ibn Ziyad from ibn Mahbub Sayf ibn ‘Amirah from abu Bakr al-Hadramiy who has said the following: “This is concerning my question before abu ‘Abd Allah (a.s.), about the case of a man who has a certain amount of property with another person who denies the existence of such thing with him and goes away with it.

Later a certain amount of the property of this person comes in the control of the first one; Can he offset his property for what has come in his control? He (the Imam) said, ‘Yes, he can do so but he must say the following: “O Lord, I take this property in place of my property which he has taken from me and I do not take it with treacherous intention and injustice.’” حسن - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (19/51))