Chapter on Sharecropping and Leasing
Man Lā Yaḥḍuruh al-Faqīh|Volume 3|Book 2|Chapter 14
وَ رُوِيَ عَنْ مُحَمَّدٍ اَلطَّيَّارِ قَالَ: دَخَلْتُ اَلْمَدِينَةَ وَ طَلَبْتُ بَيْتاً أَتَكَارَاهُ فَدَخَلْتُ دَاراً فِيهَا بَيْتَانِ بَيْنَهُمَا بَابٌ وَ فِيهِ اِمْرَأَةٌ فَقَالَتْ تُكَارِي هَذَا اَلْبَيْتَ قُلْتُ بَيْنَهُمَا بَابٌ وَ أَنَا شَابٌّ قَالَتْ أَنَا أُغْلِقُ اَلْبَابَ بَيْنِي وَ بَيْنَكَ فَحَوَّلْتُ مَتَاعِي فِيهِ وَ قُلْتُ لَهَا أَغْلِقِي اَلْبَابَ فَقَالَتْ تَدْخُلُ عَلَيَّ مِنْهُ اَلرَّوْحُ دَعْهُ فَقُلْتُ لاَ أَنَا شَابٌّ وَ أَنْتِ شَابَّةٌ أَغْلِقِيهِ قَالَتِ اُقْعُدْ أَنْتَ فِي بَيْتِكَ فَلَسْتُ آتِيكَ وَ لاَ أَقْرَبُكَ وَ أَبَتْ أَنْ تُغْلِقَهُ فَأَتَيْتُ أَبَا عَبْدِ اَللَّهِ عَلَيْهِ اَلسَّلاَمُ فَسَأَلْتُهُ عَنْ ذَلِكَ فَقَالَ "تَحَوَّلْ مِنْهُ فَإِنَّ اَلرَّجُلَ وَ اَلْمَرْأَةَ إِذَا خُلِّيَا فِي بَيْتٍ كَانَ ثَالِثُهُمَا اَلشَّيْطَانَ".
It is narrated from Muhammad Al-Tayyar, who said: I entered Medina looking for a house to rent. I came across a property with two rooms separated by a door, and a woman was living there. She said: "Would you like to rent this room?" I said: "But there is a door between the two rooms, and I am a young man." She said: "I will close the door between me and you." So, I moved my belongings into the room and said to her: "Close the door." She said: "I need it open for ventilation. Leave it." I replied: "No, I am a young man, and you are a young woman, close it." She said: "Stay in your room. I will not come to you or approach you," but she refused to close the door. So I went to Abu Abdillah عليه السلام and asked him about this matter. Imam عليه السلام said: "Move out of there, for when a man and a woman are left alone in a house, the third one among them is Satan."
- Ṣaḥīḥ al-Faqīh