Security Deposit ( Al-Rahn ) Mortgage
Al-Kāfi|Volume 5|Book 2|Chapter 109
21- أَحْمَدُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنِ ابْنِ فَضَّالٍ عَنْ إِبْرَاهِيمَ بْنِ عُثْمَانَ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللهِ (عَلَيْهِ السَّلام) قَالَ قُلْتُ لَهُ رَجُلٌ لِي عَلَيْهِ دَرَاهِمُ وَكَانَتْ دَارُهُ رَهْناً فَأَرَدْتُ أَنْ أَبِيعَهَا قَالَ أُعِيذُكَ بِاللهِ أَنْ تُخْرِجَهُ مِنْ ظِلِّ رَأْسِهِ.
21. Ahmad ibn Muhammad has narrated from ibn Faddal from Ibrahim ibn ‘Uthman who has said the following: “I once said to abu ‘Abd Allah عليه السلام, ‘There is a man who owes to me a certain amount of dirhams and his house is as al-Rahn (security deposit) with me and I want to sell it. He (the Imam) said, ‘Do you, by Allah, have the intention to take the roof away from the top of his head?”’
- Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (19/285)
- Ṣaḥīḥ al-Kāfī, vol. 2, p. 354