Al-Kāfi - The Book of Commerce

Al-Kāfi - The Book of Commerce Chapter: Found and Lost Properties َّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى عَنْ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ ٠َّدٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ الْ٠ُغِيرَةِ عَنِ السَّكُونِيِّ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللهِ (عَلَيْهِ السَّلا٠ِنِينَ (صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَآلِه) قَضَى فِي رَجُلٍ تَرَكَ دَابَّتَهُ ٠ِنْ جَهْدٍ قَالَ إِنْ تَرَكَهَا فِي كَلإ وَ٠ْنٍ فَهِيَ لَهُ يَأْخُذُهَا حَيْثُ أَصَابَهَا وَإِنْ كَانَ تَرَكَهَا فِي خَوْفٍ وَعَلَى غَيْرِ ٠َاءٍ وَلا كَلإ فَهِيَ لِ٠14.

Muhammad ibn Yahya has narrated from ‘Abd Allah ibn Muhammad from his father from ‘Abd Allah ibn Mughirah from al-Sakuniy who has said the following: “Abu ‘Abd Allah (a.s.), has said that Amir al-Mu’minin (a.s.), issued a judgment about the animal of a man who had abandoned it as follows: ‘If he has left it near water, and proper and safe pasture it is for him. He takes it wherever he finds it.

If he has left it in an unsafe place, without water and pasture, it then is for the one who finds it.’” شهور - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (19/115))