الكافي- ط الاسلامية, volume 7, page 373

Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Ibn Abu Umeyr, from Ali Bin Abu Hamza, from Abu Baseer, (It has been narrated) from Abu Ja’far asws having said: ‘Amir Al-Momineen asws entered the Masjid, so a young man came across him crying, and around him was a group calming him down. So Ali asws said: ‘What makes you weep?’ So he said, ‘O Amir Al-Momineen asws ! Shurayh judged upon me with a judgement, I do not know what it is. These persons went out with my father being with them in a journey. So they came back, and my father did not return. So I asked them about him. So they said, ‘he died’. So I asked them about his wealth. So they said, ‘He did not leave any wealth’. So I proceeded with them to Shurayh. So he made them swear oaths; and I know well, O Amir Al-Momineen asws , that my father went out, and with him was a lot of wealth. So Amir Al-Momineen asws said to them: ‘Return to Shurayh, and the youth was with them. So Amir Al-Momineen asws said to him: ‘O Shurayh! How did you judge between these people?’ So he said, ‘O Amir Al-Momineen asws ! This youth claimed against these persons that they had gone out in a journey, and his father was with them. So they returned, and his father did not return. So he asked them about him, so they said, ‘Died’. So he asked them about his wealth, so they said, ‘He did not leave behind any wealth’. So I said to the youth, ‘Is there any evidence with you upon what you are claiming?’ So he said, ‘No’. So I made them swear an oath, so they oathed’. So Amir Al-Momineen asws said: ‘Far be it! O Shurayh, is it like this that you judge for the likes of this?’ So he said, ‘O Amir Al-Momineen asws ! So how?’ So Amir Al-Momineen asws said: ‘By Allah azwj ! I asws shall not be judging regarding them with a judgement what a creature before me asws has judged with except for the Prophet Dawood as . O Qanbar! Call the thursday policemen for me!’ So he called them over. So he asws allocated with each men from them, with a man from the police. Then he asws looked at their faces, so he asws said; ‘What is that which you are saying? Are you saying that I asws do not know what you have done with the father of this youth, that I asws am ignorant?’ Then he asws said: ‘Separate them and cover their heads!’. He (Abu Ja’far asws ) said: ‘So he asws separated them and stood each one of the man from them to a pillar from the pillars of the Masjid, and their head were covered by their own clothes. Then he called for Ubeydullah Bin Abu Rafi’e, his asws scribe. So he asws said: ‘Give me a parchment, and ink’. And Amir Al-Momineen asws sat in the seat of the judges, and the people sat facing him asws . So he asws said to them: ‘When I asws exclaim (Takbeer) so you all exclaim (as well)’. Then he asws said to the people: ‘Go out’. Then he called one of them, so he asws made him sit in front of him asws , and uncovered his face. Then he asws said to Ubeydullah Bin Abu Rafi’e: ‘Write down his confession and whatever he is saying’. Then he asws faced him with the questioning, so Amir Al-Momineen asws said: ‘In which day did you all go from your houses, and the father of this youth was with you?’ So the man said, ‘In such and such a day’. He asws said: ‘And in which month?’ He said, ‘In such a such a month’. He asws said; ‘In which year?’ He said, ‘In such a such a year’. He asws said: ‘And to where did you reach in your journey until the father of this youth died?’ He said, ‘To such and such a place’. He asws said: ‘And in whose house did he died?’ He said, ‘In the house of so and so, son of so and so’. He asws said: ‘And what was his illness?’ He said, ‘Such and such’. He asws said: ‘And for how many days was he ill?’ He said, ‘For such and such number of days’. He asws said: ‘And in which day did he die? And who washed him? And who shrouded him? And with what did you shroud him with? And who Prayed over him? And who descended into his grave?’ So when he asws had questioned him about the entired of what he asws had intended to, Amir Al-Momineen asws exclaimed ( Takbeer ), and the people exclaimed altogether. So the remaining ones (accused) suspected that did not doubt that their companion had confessed against them, and against himself. So he asws ordered for his head to be covered and be taken to the prison. Then he asws called for the other one and made him to sit in front of him asws , and uncovered (the covering) from his face, then said: ‘All of you are thinking that I asws do not know what you have done’. So he said, ‘O Amir Al-Momineen asws ! I was not except one of a group, and I had detested his killing. So he confessed. Then he called for one after the other. All of them confessted with the killing, and he asws seized the wealth, then returned the one he asws had ordered to be in the prison. So he confessed as well. So he asws necessitated upon them the wealth and the blood’. So Shurayh said, ‘O Amir Al-Momineen asws ! And how was the judgement of the Prophet Dawood as ?’ So he asws said: ‘The Prophet Dawood as passed by boys who were playing and one of them called out, O Maat Al-Deen’ (O Religion is dead)!’ So a boy from them responded. So Dawood as called him over and said: ‘O boy! What is your name?’ He said, ‘Maat Al-Deen’. So Dawood as said to him: ‘Who has named you with this name?’ So he said, ‘My mother’. So Dawood went with him to his mother, so he as said to her: ‘O you woman! What is the name of this son of yours?’ She said, ‘Maat Al-Deen’. So he as said to her: ‘And who named him with this name?’ She said, ‘His father’. He as said: ‘And how was that’. She said, ‘His father had gone out in a journey of his and with him was a group, and this is the boy whom I was carrying in my belly. So the group left and my husband did not. So I asked them about him, so they said, ‘Died’. So I said to them, ‘What did he leave?’ They said, ‘He did not leave anything’. So I said, ‘Did he bequeath you all with a bequest?’ They said, ‘Yes. He claimed that you were pregnant, so whatever is born, a girl or a boy, so name him Maat Al-Deen. So I named him’ (like that after his birth). Dawood as said: ‘And would you recognise the people who had gone out with your husband?’ She said, ‘Yes’. He as said: ‘So are they alive, or dead?’ She said, ‘But, (they are) alive’. He as said: ‘So come with us to them’. So he as went with her and made them come out from their houses. So he as judged between them with this judgement, exactly, and established against them the wealth, and the blood, and said to the woman: ‘Name this son of yours ‘Aash Al-Deen (Religion is alive)’. And the people differed with regards to the wealth of the youth, how much it was, so Amir Al-Momineen asws took his asws ring and the all of the rings from his asws presence (from people), then said: ‘Make these as the arrows, so whichever one of you extracts my asws ring, so he is truthful in his claim, because it is a divination of Allah azwj , and the divination of Allah azwj is not unsuccessful’.

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