Selling Goods by Numbers and Estimate and Unknown Items
Al-Kāfi|Volume 5|Book 2|Chapter 83
8- مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنِ ابْنِ مَحْبُوبٍ عَنْ إِبْرَاهِيمَ الْكَرْخِيِّ قَالَ قُلْتُ لأبِي عَبْدِ اللهِ (عَلَيْهِ السَّلام) مَا تَقُولُ فِي رَجُلٍ اشْتَرَى مِنْ رَجُلٍ أَصْوَافَ مِائَةِ نَعْجَةٍ وَمَا فِي بُطُونِهَا مِنْ حَمْلٍ بِكَذَا وَكَذَا دِرْهَماً قَالَ لا بَأْسَ بِذَلِكَ إِنْ لَمْ يَكُنْ فِي بُطُونِهَا حَمْلٌ كَانَ رَأْسُ مَالِهِ فِي الصُّوفِ.
8. Muhammad ibn Yahya has narrated from Ahmad ibn Muhammad from ibn Mahbub Ibrahim al-Karkhiy who has said the following: “This is concerning my question before abu ‘Abd Allah عليه السلام, about the case of a man who buys wool of a hundred sheep from another man and what is in their womb for so amount of dirham. He (the Imam) said, ‘It is not harmful; in case there is nothing in their womb he has his capital in the wool.’”
- Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (9/209)
- Ṣaḥīḥ al-Kāfī, vol. 2, p. 333