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السيوطي:٤-٢١٥٢b –

"عَنْ عَلِىٍّ: أَنَّ قَوْمًا اخْتَصَمُوا إِلَيْهِ في خُصٍّ لَهُم، فَقَضَى بِنَظرِ أَيُّهُم أَقْرَبُ مِن القِمَاطِ فَهُوَ أَحَقُّ بِهِ".  

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bayhaqi:11372 – Abū al-Qāsim ʿAbd al-Wāḥid b. Isḥāq b. al-Najjār Bi-al-Kūfah > Abū Jaʿfar b. Duḥaym > Aḥmad b. Ḥāzim > ʿAmr b. Ḥammād > Asbāṭ > Simāk > a man from Ahl al-Baṣrah > Qawm

[Machine] that a group of people were disputing about a share that they had, so they presented their case to Ali and he ruled that they should see which one of them was closer to a cloth, and that person would receive the share.  

البيهقي:١١٣٧٢ – أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو الْقَاسِمِ عَبْدُ الْوَاحِدِ بْنُ إِسْحَاقَ بْنِ النَّجَّارِ بِالْكُوفَةِ أنبأ أَبُو جَعْفَرِ بْنُ دُحَيْمٍ ثنا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ حَازِمٍ ثنا عَمْرُو بْنُ حَمَّادٍ عَنْ أَسْبَاطٍ عَنْ سِمَاكٍ عَنْ رَجُلٍ مِنْ أَهْلِ الْبَصْرَةِ

أَنَّ قَوْمًا اخْتَصَمُوا فِي خُصٍّ لَهُمْ إِلَى عَلِيٍّ فَقَضَى بَيْنَهُمْ أَنْ يُنْظَرَ أَيُّهُمْ كَانَ أَقْرَبَ مِنَ الْقِمَاطِ فَهُوَ أَحَقُّ بِهِ وَهَذَا مُنْقَطِعٌ وَقَدْ  

رَوَاهُ الْوَلِيدُ بْنُ أَبِي ثَوْرٍ عَنْ سِمَاكٍ عَنْ حَنَشٍ عَنْ عَلِيٍّ ؓ وَلَيْسَ بِالْقَوِيِّ وَاللهُ أَعْلَمُ