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Hadith 606
Hadith #
606
Book
Maʿānī al-ʾAkhbār
Volume
1
Section
339
Part
Content
Chapter
The meaning of jubar
Source
Shaykh Muḥammad b. ʿAlī al-Ṣaduq
۞
Qasem bin Salam said: According to me, it is an ordinary well to which it is not known any (particular) digger, nor owner, but which lies in a valley, and so a human or an animal fall into it. Hence, that is (considered to be) a vain death. It is like a man who is found killed in an open land, by which it is not known for him any killer. Hence, there is no retaliation, nor indemnity for him. As for his saying: « metal is a jubar» they are these metals from which gold and silver are extracted, by which some people would come to dig them up for them for a defined thing [1], and the metal would perhaps collapse on them and kill them. Hence, their blood were shed in vain, because they only worked in return for a reward. As for his saying: «and there shall be one-fifth for rikaz», the people of Iraq and the people of Hijaz have disputed with regards to rikaz. The people of Iraq have said that rikaz refers to metals, all of it, and the people of Hijaz have said that rikaz refers exclusively to buried property among what the sons of Adam have stored before Islam.
وقال القاسم بن سلام: هي عندي البئر العادية القديمة التي لا يعلم لها حافر ولا مالك تكون بالوادي فيقع فيها الانسان أو الدابة فذلك هدر بمنزلة الرجل يوجد قتيلا بفلاة من الأرض لا يعلم له قاتل فليس فيه قسامة ولا دية. وأما قوله: " المعدن جبار " فإنها هذه المعادن التي يستخرج منها الذهب والفضة، فيجيئ قوم يحتفرونها لهم بشئ مسمى فربما انهار المعدن عليهم فيقتلهم فدماؤهم هدر لأنهم إنما عملوا بأجرة. وأما قوله: " وفي الركاز الخمس " فإن أهل العراق وأهل الحجاز اختلفوا في الركاز فقال أهل العراق: الركاز المعادن كلها، وقال أهل الحجاز الركاز المال المدفون خاصة مما كنزه بنو آدم قبل الاسلام.
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