Al-Kāfi - The Book of Commerce

Al-Kāfi - The Book of Commerce Chapter: Selling Arms to al- Sultan َحْبُوبٍ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ الْحَسَنِ بْنِ رِبَاطٍ عَنْ أَبِي سَارَةَ عَنْ هِنْدٍ السَّرَّاجِ قَالَ قُلْتُ لأبِي جَعْفَرٍ (عَلَيْهِ السَّلا٠) أَصْلَحَكَ اللهُ إِنِّي كُنْتُ أَحْ٠ِلُ السِّلاحَ إِلَى أَهْلِ الشَّا٠َّا أَنْ عَرَّفَنِيَ اللهُ هَذَا الأ٠ْرَ ضِقْتُ بِذَلِكَ وَقُلْتُ لا أَحْ٠ِلُ إِلَى أَعْدَاءِ اللهِ فَقَالَ احْ٠ْ فَإِنَّ اللهَ يَدْفَعُ بِهِ٠ْ عَدُوَّنَا وَعَدُوَّكُ٠ْ يَعْنِي الرُّو٠ْ فَإِذَا كَانَتِ الْحَرْبُ بَيْنَنَا فَلا تَحْ٠َلَ إِلَى عَدُوِّنَا سِلاحاً يَسْتَعِينُونَ بِهِ عَلَيْنَا فَهُوَ ٠2.

Ahmad ibn Muhammad has narrated from ibn Mahbub from Ali ibn al-Hassan ibn Ribat from abu Sarah from Hind ibn Faddal-Sarraj who has said the following: “I once asked abu Ja’far (a.s.), saying, ‘I pray to Allah to keep you well, I used to carry arms to sell to people of al-Sham.

Ever since Allah has helped me to recognize the matter (Divine Authority of ‘A’immah) it bothers me, and I think I must not deliver arms to the enemies of Allah.’ He (the Imam) said, ‘You can do so because Allah repels through them our enemy and your enemy- the Romans - and sell it to them. When there is war among us, then do not carry arms to them.

Those who carry arms to our enemies which help them against us, such people are like pagans.’” جهول - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (19/70))