Refusal to accept unlawful monies

Miracles of Masoomeen
Ali bin Muhammad narrates that a person from Iraq sent some monies to the Imam, who did not accept it saying: “Take out the rights of your cousin from them, which is four hundred dirhams.” The man was transfixed with wonder and perplexity.
He viewed the accounts and there were in his hands the lost assets for the son of his uncle, some of which he had returned but not all of it. When he transferred his cousins’ assets to currency, it was worth four hundred dirhams, as the Imam (a) had said. He took that sum out and sent the rest. His dispatch was accepted.”

Al-Kafi, Vol. 1, Pg. 519; Al-Kharaij; Kamaluddin, Pg. 486, Miracles of Ahlulbayt (a.s. ) - Vol. 4.pg.280

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