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Hadith 623
Hadith #
623
Book
Al-Kāfi
Volume
5
Section
75
Part
The Book of Commerce
Chapter
The Case of Change of Prices of Certain Merchandise before Delivery
Source
Shaykh Muḥammad b. Yaʿqūb al-Kulaynī
۞
3. Muhammad ibn Yahya has narrated the following
“Muhammad ibn al-Hassan once wrote to abu Muhammad (a.s.), asking, ‘A man has hired another man to work and build a structure for another person and he gives the worker food, cotton and other things; then the prices of food and cotton rise or fall and change from the day he gave him, if he can count on him with the price of the day of delivery or the price of the day of finalizing the account. He (the Imam) signed the answer, ‘He must pay according to the prices of the day he set mutual conditions (prices, work and so on) if Allah so wills.’ He (the Imam) (a.s.), about the question of goods that one receives and pays food for it without determining prices which then change, signed the answer, ‘Prices are that of the day he has given the food.’”
3- مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى قَالَ كَتَبَ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْحَسَنِ إِلَى أَبِي مُحَمَّدٍ (عَلَيْهِ السَّلام) رَجُلٌ اسْتَأْجَرَ أَجِيراً يَعْمَلُ لَهُ بِنَاءً أَوْ غَيْرَهُ وَجَعَلَ يُعْطِيهِ طَعَاماً وَقُطْناً وَغَيْرَ ذَلِكَ ثُمَّ تَغَيَّرَ الطَّعَامُ وَالْقُطْنُ مِنْ سِعْرِهِ الَّذِي كَانَ أَعْطَاهُ إِلَى نُقْصَانٍ أَوْ زِيَادَةٍ أَيَحْتَسِبُ لَهُ بِسِعْرِ يَوْمَ أَعْطَاهُ أَوْ بِسِعْرِ يَوْمَ حَاسَبَهُ فَوَقَّعَ (عَلَيْهِ السَّلام) يَحْتَسِبُ لَهُ بِسِعْرِ يَوْمٍ شَارَطَهُ فِيهِ إِنْ شَاءَ اللهُ وَأَجَابَ (عَلَيْهِ السَّلام) فِي الْمَالِ يَحِلُّ عَلَى الرَّجُلِ فَيُعْطِي بِهِ طَعَاماً عِنْدَ مَحِلِّهِ وَلَمْ يُقَاطِعْهُ ثُمَّ تَغَيَّرَ السِّعْرُ فَوَقَّعَ (عَلَيْهِ السَّلام) لَهُ سِعْرُ يَوْمَ أَعْطَاهُ الطَّعَامَ.
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