[12] مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ إِسْمَاعِيلَ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ الْحَكَمِ عَنْ جَهْمِ بْنِ أَبِي جَهْمَةَ عَنْ مُعَتِّبٍ قَالَ قَالَ لِي أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) وَ قَدْ تَزَيَّدَ السِّعْرُ بِالْمَدِينَةِ كَمْ عِنْدَنَا مِنْ طَعَامٍ قَالَ قُلْتُ عِنْدَنَا مَا يَكْفِيكَ أَشْهُراً كَثِيرَةً قَالَ أَخْرِجْهُ وَ بِعْهُ Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Ali Bin Ismail, from Ali Bin Al Hakam, from Jahm Bin Abu Jahma, from Mo’tab who said, ‘Abu Abdullah -asws said to me, and the prices had increased in Al-Median: ‘How much food is there with us -asws ?’ I said, ‘With us is what would suffice you -asws for a month or more’.
He (the narrator) said, ‘I said to him -asws , ‘And there is no food in Al-Medina’. He -asws said: ‘Sell it’. So when I had sold it, he -asws said: ‘Buy (food) along with the people day after day’. And he -asws said: ‘O Mo’tab! Make the daily provision for my -asws dependents to be half barley and half wheat, for Allah -azwj Knows that I -asws can feed them the wheat upon its own aspect, but I -asws love it that Allah -azwj should See me -asws that I -asws have managed the living in a good way’.
Ali Bin Muhammad Bin Bundar, from Ahmad Bin Abu Abdullah, from Mohsan Bin Ahmad, from Yunus Bin yaqoub, from Mo’tab who said, ‘Abu Al-Hassan -asws used to order us whenever we realised the fruit harvest that we should take it out and sell them, and buy along with the Muslims, on a day-to-day basis.