Found and Lost Properties

Al-Kāfi|Volume 5|Book 2|Chapter 49
Al-Kāfi

Volume 5, Book 2, Chapter 49

Found and Lost Properties

13- عِدَّةٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ وَسَهْلِ بْنِ زِيَادٍ عَنِ ابْنِ مَحْبُوبٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ سِنَانٍ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللهِ (عَلَيْهِ السَّلام) قَالَ مَنْ أَصَابَ مَالا أَوْ بَعِيراً فِي فَلاةٍ مِنَ الأرْضِ قَدْ كَلَّتْ وَقَامَتْ وَسَيَّبَهَا صَاحِبُهَا مِمَّا لَمْ يَتْبَعْهُ فَأَخَذَهَا غَيْرُهُ فَأَقَامَ عَلَيْهَا وَأَنْفَقَ نَفَقَةً حَتَّى أَحْيَاهَا مِنَ الْكَلالِ وَمِنَ الْمَوْتِ فَهِيَ لَهُ وَلا سَبِيلَ لَهُ عَلَيْهَا وَإِنَّمَا هِيَ مِثْلُ الشَّيْ‏ءِ الْمُبَاحِ.
13. A number of our people have narrated from Ahmad ibn Muhammad from and Sahl ibn Ziyad from ibn Mahbub from ‘ Abd Allah ibn Sinan who has said the following: “Abu ‘Abd Allah عليه السلام, has said, ‘If one finds a certain amount of goods, or a camel in wilderness which has become tired has stopped walking and its owner has abandoned it; someone other than the owner then takes it, tends to it and incurs expenses to revive it from tiredness and death; it then is for him. He (the owner) has no reason to claim it. It then is like a lawful thing for him (the finder).”’
  • Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi
    Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (19/114)
  • Shaykh Baqir al-Behbudi
    Ṣaḥīḥ al-Kāfī, vol. 2, p. 312