[20] Inflation caused by Hoarding...

Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Ibn Abu Umeyr, from Hisham Bin Salim, (It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah -asws having said: ‘Allah -azwj Blessed and High Prolongs (Favour) upon His -azwj servants by three – He -azwj Casts the smell upon them after the (departure of the) soul, and had it not been for that, a friend would not bury a friend; and Casts comfort upon them, and had it not been for that, the lineages would be cut off; and Casts the insects upon these grains, and had it not been for that, their kings would have hoarded them just as they are hoarding the gold and the silver’ .

Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Al Nowfaly, from Al Sakuny, from; Abu Abdullah -asws said: ‘The monopolising (hoarding) during the abundance is of forty days, and during the difficulty and the affliction is of three days. So, whatever is increased upon the forty days during the abundance, so its perpetrator is an accursed, and whatever is increased upon three days during the shortages, so its perpetrator is an accursed’.

[22] [1] Al Kafi – V 5 – The Book of Subsistence Ch 7 H 7 [2] Bihar Al Anwaar – V 46, The book of History – Ja’far Al Sadiq -asws , Ch 4 H 22 [3] Al-Kafi, vol, 4, H. 6183, Ch. 39, h 12 [4] Wasail ul Shai, H. 21664, originally from Manla Yazar ul Faqih, [5] وسائل الشيعة، ج‏17، ص: 56, H.