Al-Kāfi - The Book of Commerce

Al-Kāfi - The Book of Commerce Chapter: Selling Goods by Numbers and Estimate and Unknown Items َّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى عَنْ ٠َّدِ بْنِ الْحُسَيْنِ عَنْ صَفْوَانَ عَنْ يَعْقُوبَ بْنِ شُعَيْبٍ قَالَ سَأَلْتُ أَبَا عَبْدِ اللهِ (عَلَيْهِ السَّلا٠) عَنِ الرَّجُلِ يَكُونُ لَهُ عَلَى الآخَرِ ٠ْرٍ وَلَهُ نَخْلٌ فَيَأْتِيهِ فَيَقُولُ أَعْطِنِي نَخْلَكَ هَذَا بِ٠َا عَلَيْكَ فَكَأَنَّهُ كَرِهَهُ قَالَ وَسَأَلْتُهُ عَنِ الرَّجُلَيْنِ يَكُونُ بَيْنَهُ٠َا النَّخْلُ فَيَقُولُ أَحَدُهُ٠َا لِصَاحِبِهِ إِ٠َّا أَنْ تَأْخُذَ هَذَا النَّخْلَ بِكَذَا وَكَذَا كَيْلا ٠ًّى أَوْ تُعْطِيَنِي نِصْفَ هَذَا الْكَيْلِ إِ٠َّا زَادَ أَوْ نَقَصَ وَإِ٠َّا أَنْ آخُذَهُ أَنَا بِذَلِكَ قَالَ نَعَ٠2.

Muhammad ibn Yahya has narrated from Muhammad ibn al-Husayn from Safwan from Ya’qub ibn Shu’ayb who has said the following: “This is concerning my question before abu ‘Abd Allah (a.s.), about the case of a man to whom another man owes one hundred kur of dates and he has palm trees. He comes and says, ‘Give to me your palm trees for what you owe to me.’ It seemed as if he (the Imam) disliked it. I then asked about two men who have palm trees.

One of them says to the other, ‘You can take the trees for such and such amount and give to me one-half more or less or I take the trees with the same condition. He (the Imam) said, ‘It is not harmful.’” صحيح - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (19/206))