Buying and Selling Goods
Al-Kāfi|Volume 5|Book 2|Chapter 84
4- عِدَّةٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ وَسَهْلِ بْنِ زِيَادٍ عَنِ ابْنِ مَحْبُوبٍ عَنْ أَبِي وَلادٍ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللهِ (عَلَيْهِ السَّلام) وَغَيْرِهِ عَنْ أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ (عَلَيْهِ السَّلام) قَالَ لا بَأْسَ بِأَجْرِ السِّمْسَارِ إِنَّمَا يَشْتَرِي لِلنَّاسِ يَوْماً بَعْدَ يَوْمٍ بِشَيْءٍ مُسَمًّى إِنَّمَا هُوَ بِمَنْزِلَةِ الأجَرَاءِ.
4. A number of our people have narrated from Ahmad ibn Muhammad from and Sahl ibn Ziyad from ibn Mahbub from abu Wallad from abu ‘Abd Allah عليه السلام, and others from abu Ja‘far عليه السلام, who has said the following: “Abu Ja’far عليه السلام, has said, ‘Brokerage fee is not unlawful; he only buys for people every now and then for a known amount. He in fact works on hire.’”
- Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (19/213)
- Ṣaḥīḥ al-Kāfī, vol. 2, p. 334