hadith
792
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6. Through the same chain of narrators as that of the previous Hadith the following is narrated
“About a man who sees a bird and follows it until it sits on a tree and another man comes and takes it, ’Amir al-Mu 5 minin (a.s.), has said, ‘For an eye is what it has seen and for hands is what they catch 5 ”
وَ بِإِسْنَادِهِ أَنَّ أَمِيرَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ( عليه السلام ) قَالَ فِي رَجُلٍ أَبْصَرَ طَائِراً فَتَبِعَهُ حَتَّى سَقَطَ عَلَى شَجَرَةٍ فَجَاءَ رَجُلٌ آخَرُ فَأَخَذَهُ فَقَالَ أَمِيرُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ( عليه السلام ) لِلْعَيْنِ مَا رَأَتْ وَ لِلْيَدِ مَا أَخَذَتْ .
Similar narrations
- Man Lā Yaḥḍuruh al-Faqīh #289 "What the eye sees belongs to it, and what the hand takes belongs to it."