Al-Kāfi - The Book of Commerce

Al-Kāfi - The Book of Commerce Chapter: Finding Defect in Merchandise after the Sale ِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ أَحْ٠َّدٍ عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي عُ٠َيْرٍ عَنِ الْحَسَنِ بْنِ عَطِيَّةَ عَنْ عُ٠َرَ بْنِ يَزِيدَ قَالَ كُنْتُ أَنَا وَعُ٠َدِينَةِ فَبَاعَ عُ٠َرُ جِرَاباً هَرَوِيّاً كُلَّ ثَوْبٍ بِكَذَا وَكَذَا فَأَخَذُوهُ فَاقْتَسَ٠ُوهُ فَوَجَدُوا ثَوْباً فِيهِ عَيْبٌ فَرَدُّوهُ فَقَالَ لَهُ٠َنَهُ الَّذِي بِعْتُكُ٠ْ بِهِ قَالَ لا وَلَكِنْ نَأْخُذُ ٠َةَ الثَّوْبِ فَذَكَرَ عُ٠َرُ ذَلِكَ لأبِي عَبْدِ اللهِ (عَلَيْهِ السَّلا٠1.

A number of our people have narrated from Ahmad ibn Muhammad from Ibn Abi ‘Umayr from al-Hassan ibn ‘ Atiyyah from ‘Umar ibn Yazid who has said the following: “‘Umar and I were in al-Madinah and ‘Umar sold sacks made in Hirat, every cloth for so and so amount. They took them and divided among themselves but they found one defective piece and returned it.

‘Umar said to them, ‘I can pay you the price for which I sold to you.’ He said, ‘No, we take from you the price of the cloth.’ ‘Umar mentioned this before abu ‘Abd Allah (a.s.), and he (the Imam) said, ‘He must do so (as he is asked to do).”’ (The pronoun ‘He’ can apply to either one of seller or buyer but its applying to the buyer has greater support in the principles of the system of Shari ‘ah) صحيح - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (9/229))