Hadith 319

(The book) ‘Al Kharaij Wa Al Jaraih’ –
‘A man entered to see Al-Sadiq-asws and complained to him-asws of his destitution. He-asws said: ‘Feel good for Allah-azwj will be Easing the matter’. The man went out and found a money-belt wherein were seven hundred Dinars. He took thirty Dinars from it and left to go to Abu Abdullah-asws and narrated to him with what he had found. He-asws said: ‘Go out and call out upon it (publicise) for a year, perhaps its owner would claim it’. The man went out and said, ‘I will not call out in the markets and among a gathering of the people. And he went to a road at the end of the city and said, ‘Who has lost something of his? ’ There, a man said, ‘Seven hundred Dinars have gone away from me in such and such place’. He said, ‘That is with me’. When he saw him, and he had a scale with him, he weighed them, and it was like what he had said, not deficient. He took seventy Dinars from it and gave it to the man (as reward). He took it and went out to Abu Abdullah-asws. When he-asws saw him, he-asws smiled and said: ‘O you! Give me-asws the bundle’. He gave it. He-asws said: ‘This here are thirty, and you have (already) taken seventy from the man, and seventy Permissibles are better than seven hundred Prohibited’’. [155]