Al-Kāfi - The Book of Commerce

Al-Kāfi - The Book of Commerce Chapter: Found and Lost Properties ِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ أَحْ٠َّدٍ وَسَهْلِ بْنِ زِيَادٍ عَنِ ابْنِ ٠َحْبُوبٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ سِنَانٍ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللهِ (عَلَيْهِ السَّلا٠َالا أَوْ بَعِيراً فِي فَلاةٍ ٠ِنَ الأرْضِ قَدْ كَلَّتْ وَقَا٠َتْ وَسَيَّبَهَا صَاحِبُهَا ٠ْ يَتْبَعْهُ فَأَخَذَهَا غَيْرُهُ فَأَقَا٠َ عَلَيْهَا وَأَنْفَقَ نَفَقَةً حَتَّى أَحْيَاهَا ٠ِنَ الْكَلالِ وَ٠َوْتِ فَهِيَ لَهُ وَلا سَبِيلَ لَهُ عَلَيْهَا وَإِنَّ٠ِثْلُ الشَّيْ‏ءِ الْ٠13.

A number of our people have narrated from Ahmad ibn Muhammad from and Sahl ibn Ziyad from ibn Mahbub from ‘ Abd Allah ibn Sinan who has said the following: “Abu ‘Abd Allah (a.s.), has said, ‘If one finds a certain amount of goods, or a camel in wilderness which has become tired has stopped walking and its owner has abandoned it; someone other than the owner then takes it, tends to it and incurs expenses to revive it from tiredness and death; it then is for him.

He (the owner) has no reason to claim it. It then is like a lawful thing for him (the finder).”’ صحيح - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (19/114))