Chapter on Sales
Man Lā Yaḥḍuruh al-Faqīh|Volume 3|Book 2|Chapter 11
وَ رُوِيَ عَنْ يَعْقُوبَ بْنِ شُعَيْبٍ قَالَ: سَأَلْتُ أَبَا عَبْدِ اَللَّهِ عَلَيْهِ اَلسَّلاَمُ عَنِ اَلرَّجُلِ يَكُونُ لِي عَلَيْهِ أَحْمَالٌ بِكَيْلٍ مُسَمًّى فَبَعَثَ إِلَيَّ بِأَحْمَالٍ مِنْهَا أَقَلُّ مِنَ اَلْكَيْلِ اَلَّذِي لِي عَلَيْهِ فَآخُذُهَا مُجَازَفَةً فَقَالَ "لاَ بَأْسَ بِهِ" قَالَ وَ سَأَلْتُهُ عَنِ اَلرَّجُلِ يَكُونُ لَهُ عَلَى اَلْآخَرِ مِائَةُ كُرٍّ تَمْراً وَ لَهُ نَخْلٌ فَيَأْتِيهِ فَيَقُولُ أَعْطِنِي نَخْلَكَ هَذَا بِمَا عَلَيْكَ فَكَأَنَّهُ كَرِهَهُ قَالَ وَ سَأَلْتُهُ عَنِ اَلرَّجُلَيْنِ يَكُونُ بَيْنَهُمَا اَلنَّخْلُ فَيَقُولُ أَحَدُهُمَا لِصَاحِبِهِ اِخْتَرْ إِمَّا أَنْ تَأْخُذَ هَذَا اَلنَّخْلَ بِكَذَا وَ كَذَا كَيْلاً مُسَمًّى وَ تُعْطِيَنِي نِصْفَ هَذَا اَلْكَيْلِ زَادَ أَوْ نَقَصَ وَ إِمَّا أَنْ آخُذَهُ أَنَا بِذَلِكَ قَالَ "لاَ بَأْسَ بِهِ".
Yaqub ibn Shuayb narrated: I asked Abu Abdillah عليه السلام about a man who owes me loads of goods measured by a specific scale, but he sends me loads that are less than the specified measurement I am owed. Can I take them without measuring precisely (mujazafah)? Imam عليه السلام said: "There is no harm in it." He said: I also asked Imam عليه السلام about a man who owes another person a hundred kur of dates and owns date palms. He comes to him and says, "Give me these date palms in place of what you owe me." It was as if Imam عليه السلام disliked it. He said: I asked Imam عليه السلام about two men who jointly own date palms, and one of them says to the other, "Choose, either you take this date palm for such and such a specified measure and give me half of this measure, whether it increases or decreases, or I will take it under the same terms." Imam عليه السلام said: "There is no harm in it."
- Ṣaḥīḥ al-Faqīh, p. 228