Hadith record

49. Ali ibn Ibrahim has narrated from his father from Harun ibn Muslim from Mas’adah ibn Sadaqah who has said the following: “Once abu ‘Abd Allah (a.s.), was asked about the case of a man to whom another man owed a certain amount of assets because of ‘Aynah deal. When payment time was due he did not have anything to pay so he wanted to turn it over on him for profit; if he can sell a pearl or something else worth a hundred dirham for a thousand so he can defer payment. He (the Imam) said, ‘It is not unlawful because my father, may Allah be pleased with him, had done so and he commanded me to do so because of something that he owed.’”

Translation: Muhammad Sarwar — attributed by Thaqalayn·The Arabic above is the original.