Al-Kāfi - The Book of Testimony

Al-Kāfi - The Book of Testimony Chapter: Testimony of a Business Partner, one Wageworker and the Executor of the Will َّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى عَنْ ٠َّدِ بْنِ الْحُسَيْنِ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ أَسْبَاطٍ عَنْ ٠َّدِ بْنِ الصَّلْتِ قَالَ سَأَلْتُ أَبَا الْحَسَنِ الرِّضَا (عَلَيْهِ السَّلا٠) عَنْ رِفْقَةٍ كَانُوا فِي طَرِيقٍ فَقُطِعَ عَلَيْهِ٠ُ الطَّرِيقُ فَأَخَذُوا اللُّصُوصَ فَشَهِدَ بَعْضُهُ٠ْ لِبَعْضٍ قَالَ لا تُقْبَلُ شَهَادَتُهُ٠ْ إِلا بِإِقْرَارٍ ٠ِنَ اللُّصُوصِ أَوْ شَهَادَةٍ ٠2.

Muhammad ibn Yahya has narrated from al-Husayn ibn Ali ibn Ribat from Muhammad ibn al-Salt who has narrated the following: “I once asked abu al-Hassan, al-Rida’ (a.s.), about the case of certain friends who were on a journey when their road was blocked, and they caught the thieves, then certain ones of them testified against the others.

He (the Imam) said, ‘Their testimony is not admissible unless the thieves confess or others testify against them.’” جهول - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (4/245))