Accepting a Bribe for Issuing Judgments
Al-Kāfi|Volume 7|Book 6|Chapter 5
1- عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنِ ابْنِ مَحْبُوبٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ سِنَانٍ قَالَ سُئِلَ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللهِ (عَلَيْهِ السَّلام) عَنْ قَاضٍ بَيْنَ قَرْيَتَيْنِ يَأْخُذُ مِنَ السُّلْطَانِ عَلَى الْقَضَاءِ الرِّزْقَ فَقَالَ ذَلِكَ السُّحْتُ.
1. Ali ibn Ibrahim has narrated from his father from ibn Mahbub from ‘ Abd Allah ibn Sinan who has narrated the following: “Once abu ‘Abd Allah عليه السلام, was asked about a judge between two towns who receives his wages from al-Sultan. He (the Imam) said, ‘It is a sinful earning.”’
- Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (24/269)
- Ṣaḥīḥ al-Kāfī, vol. 3, p. 364