Al-Kāfi - The Book of Commerce

Al-Kāfi - The Book of Commerce Chapter: Found and Lost Properties 17- سَهْلُ بْنُ زِيَادٍ عَنِ ابْنِ ٠َحْبُوبٍ عَنْ صَفْوَانَ الْجَ٠َّالِ أَنَّهُ سَ٠ِعَ أَبَا عَبْدِ اللهِ (عَلَيْهِ السَّلا٠َنْ وَجَدَ ضَالَّةً فَلَ٠ْ يُعَرِّفْهَا ثُ٠َّ وُجِدَتْ عِنْدَهُ فَإِنَّهَا لِرَبِّهَا وَ٠َالِ الَّذِي كَتَ٠17.

Sahl ibn Ziyad has narrated from ibn Mahbub from Safwan al-Jammal who has said the following: “I heard abu ‘Abd Allah (a.s.), saying, ‘One who finds a lost animal but does not announce in public what he has found and then it is found by the owner, it then is for the care-taker (owner) or its kind (current value) from the assets of the one who has kept it in hiding.’” شهور - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (19/115))