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bayhaqi:7655Abū Zakariyyā b. Abū Isḥāq And Ghayruh > Abū al-ʿAbbās Muḥammad b. Yaʿqūb > al-Rabīʿ b. Sulaymān > al-Shāfiʿī > Sufyān b. ʿUyaynah > Ismāʿīl b. Abū Khālid > al-Shaʿbī > Jāʾ a man > ʿAlī ؓ

[Machine] I found one thousand and five hundred dirhams in a ruin in As-Sawad. Ali said, "Shouldn't I distribute it amongst the people clearly? If you found it in a village that pays its taxes to another village, then it belongs to the people of that village. But if you found it in a village that does not pay its taxes to another village, then you get four fifths, and we get one fifth. Al-Shafi'i said, "They narrated from Ali with a connected chain of narration that he said, 'You get four fifths, and divide the fifth among the needy of your family.' This hadith is most similar to the opinion of Ali. Allah knows best." The scholar said, "He, as said 7655, Sa'id bin Mansur reported in his book from Ibn 'Uyaynah from Abdullah bin Bishr al-Khath'ami from a man from his people called Humamah. He said, 'A jug from an old monastery fell on me in Al-Kufa and it had four thousand dirhams in it. I went to Ali and he said, 'Divide it into five fifths.' So I divided it and Ali took one fifth from it and gave me four fifths. When I was leaving, he called me and said, 'Are there any poor or needy among your neighbors?' I said, 'Yes.' He said, 'Take it and divide it among them."  

البيهقي:٧٦٥٥أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو زَكَرِيَّا بْنُ أَبِي إِسْحَاقَ وَغَيْرُهُ قَالُوا ثنا أَبُو الْعَبَّاسِ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَعْقُوبَ أنبأ الرَّبِيعُ بْنُ سُلَيْمَانَ أنبأ الشَّافِعِيُّ أنبأ سُفْيَانُ بْنُ عُيَيْنَةَ ثنا إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ أَبِي خَالِدٍ عَنِ الشَّعْبِيِّ قَالَ جَاءَ رَجُلٌ إِلَى عَلِيٍّ ؓ فَقَالَ

إِنِّي وَجَدْتُ أَلْفًا وَخَمْسَمِائَةِ دِرْهَمٍ فِي خَرِبَةٍ فِي السَّوَادِ فَقَالَ عَلِيٌّ ؓ أَمَا لَأَقْضِيَنَّ فِيهَا قَضَاءً بَيِّنًا إِنْ كُنْتَ وَجَدْتَهَا فِي قَرْيَةٍ تُؤَدِّي خَرَاجَهَا قَرْيَةٌ أُخْرَى فَهِيَ لِأَهْلِ تِلْكَ الْقَرْيَةِ وَإِنْ كُنْتَ وَجَدْتَهَا فِي قَرْيَةٍ لَيْسَ تُؤَدِّي خَرَاجَهَا قَرْيَةٌ أُخْرَى فَلَكَ أَرْبَعَةُ أَخْمَاسِهِ وَلَنَا الْخُمُسُ ثُمَّ الْخُمُسُ لَكَ قَالَ الشَّافِعِيُّ قَدْ رَوَوْا عَنْ عَلِيٍّ ؓ بِإِسْنَادٍ مَوْصُولٍ أَنَّهُ قَالَ أَرْبَعَةُ أَخْمَاسِهِ لَكَ وَاقْسِمِ الْخُمُسَ فِي فُقَرَاءِ أَهْلِكَ هَذَا الْحَدِيثُ أَشْبَهُ بِعَلِيٍّ ؓ وَاللهُ أَعْلَمُ قَالَ الشَّيْخُ هُوَ كَمَا قَالَ 7655 فَقَدْ رَوَى سَعِيدُ بْنُ مَنْصُورٍ الْمَكِّيُّ فِي كِتَابِهِ عَنِ ابْنِ عُيَيْنَةَ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ بِشْرٍ الْخَثْعَمِيِّ عَنْ رَجُلٍ مِنْ قَوْمِهِ يُقَالُ لَهُ حُمَمَةُ قَالَ سَقَطَتْ عَلَيَّ جَرَّةٌ مِنْ دَيْرٍ قَدْيمٍ بِالْكُوفَةِ فِيهَا أَرْبَعَةُ آلَافِ دِرْهَمٍ فَذَهَبْتُ بِهَا إِلَى عَلِيٍّ ؓ فَقَالَ اقْسِمْهَا خَمْسَةَ أَخْمَاسٍ فَقَسَمْتُهَا فَأَخَذَ مِنْهَا عَلِيٌّ ؓ خُمُسًا وَأَعْطَانِي أَرْبَعَةَ أَخْمَاسٍ فَلَمَّا أَدْبَرْتُ دَعَانِي فَقَالَ فِي جِيرَانِكَ فُقَرَاءُ وَمَسَاكِينُ قُلْتُ نَعَمْ قَالَ خُذْهَا فَاقْسِمْهَا بَيْنَهُمْ