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Hadith 823
Hadith #
823
Book
Al-Kāfi
Volume
5
Section
104
Part
The Book of Commerce
Chapter
Buying Stolen Goods and Cheating
Source
Shaykh Muḥammad b. Yaʿqūb al-Kulaynī
۞
1. A number of our people have narrated from Sahl ibn Ziyad and Ahmad ibn Muhammad all from ibn Mahbub from abu Ayyub from abu Basir who has said the following
“I once asked one of the two Imam, (abu Ja’far or abu ‘Abd Allah), ‘Alayhim al-Salam, about buying goods from cheating and stealing. He (the Imam) said, ‘No, it is not lawful unless it is mixed with other goods. The very substance of stolen goods cannot be purchased unless it is of the properties of the sultan in which case it is not unlawful.’”
1- عِدَّةٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ سَهْلِ بْنِ زِيَادٍ وَأَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ جَمِيعاً عَنِ ابْنِ مَحْبُوبٍ عَنْ أَبِي أَيُّوبَ عَنْ أَبِي بَصِيرٍ قَالَ
سَأَلْتُ أَحَدَهُمَا (عَلَيْهِما السَّلام) عَنْ شِرَاءِ الْخِيَانَةِ وَالسَّرِقَةِ فَقَالَ لا إِلا أَنْ يَكُونَ قَدِ اخْتَلَطَ مَعَهُ غَيْرُهُ فَأَمَّا السَّرِقَةُ بِعَيْنِهَا فَلا إِلا أَنْ تَكُونَ مِنْ مَتَاعِ السُّلْطَانِ فَلا بَأْسَ بِذَلِكَ.
Tags TradeTrustworthiness (Amanah)

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