240. al-Ghārāt – narrating from Kulayb al-Jarmi: “I was with Ali (a.s.) when some wealth was brought to him from the mountains. He stood up and we rose along with him too, and went toward the donkey-keepers and camel-drivers. People crowded around him. Then he took some pieces of rope, tied them together and made a fence around the wealth and said: “I shall not let anyone pass through this rope.”
We sat behind the rope and Ali (a.s.) walked over the rope and said: “Where are the chiefs of the seven tribes?”
They went to him and began to move the saddlebags here and there until they divided them into seven portions.”
Kulayb said: “He [Ali (a.s.)] found some bread among the goods and he divided it into seven parts, then placed a piece of bread on each portion and said:
‘This is my harvest and the best of it is in it;
Yet, every harvester puts it with his ow hand in his own mouth.’
Kulayb said, “Then he drew lots on the portions and the chiefs of each tribe called their tribesmen to carry away the saddlebags.”¹

241. Muruj al-Dhahab: “He took back the properties that `Uthmān had granted to a group of Muslims and distributed what was in the treasury, without favoring anyone over anyone else.”²

242. Muruj al-Dhahab – from the report on the battle of Jamal: “Ali (a.s.) took hold of what was [left] in the battlefield of the enemy such as arms, animals, wealth, etc., and he sold them and distributed the money among his companions (those present in his army), taking for himself as much as his other companions, household and children which was five hundred dirhams.
Then a man from among his companions came to him and said: “O Commander of the Faithful! I did not get anything because I was not present for such and such reason.” And he gave his excuse for not being present and Ali (a.s.) gave his own five hundred dirhams to him.”³

240. الغارات عن كُلَيب الجَرمِيّ: كُنتُ عِندَ عَلِيٍّ علیه السلام فَجاءَهُ مالٌ مِنَ الجَبَلِ، فَقامَ وقُمنا مَعَهُ، حَتّى انتَهَينا إلى خَربَندجن¹ وجَمّالينَ، فَاجتَمَعَ النّاسُ إلَيهِ، حَتّى ازدَحَموا عَلَيهِ، فَأَخَذَ حِبالاً فَوَصَلَها بِيَدِهِ وعَقَدَ بَعضَها إلى بَعضٍ، ثُمَّ أدارَها حَولَ المَتاعِ، ثُمَّ قالَ: لا اُحِلُّ لاَِحَد أن يُجاوِزَ هذَا الحَبلَ. فَقَعَدنا مِن وَراءِ الحَبلِ.
ودَخَلَ عَلِيٌّ علیه السلام فَقالَ: أينَ رُؤوسُ الأَسباعِ؟ فَدَخَلوا عَلَيهِ، فَجَعَلوا يَحمِلونَ هذَا الجوالِقَ إلى هذَا الجوالِقِ، وهذا إلى هذا، حَتّى قَسَموهُ سَبعَةَ أجزاءٍ.
قالَ: فَوَجَدَ مَعَ المَتاعِ رَغيفاً، فَكَسَرَهُ سَبعَ كِسَرٍ، ثُمَّ وَضَعَ عَلى كُلِّ جُزءٍ كِسرَةً، ثُمَّ قالَ:

هذا جَنايَ وخِيارُهُ فيهإذ كُلُّ جان يَدُهُ إلى فيه
قالَ: ثُمَّ أقرَعَ عَلَيها، فَجَعَلَ كُلَّ رَجُلٍ يَدعو قَومَهُ، فَيَحمِلونَ الجَوالِقَ.²

241. مُروج الذَّهَب: اِنتَزَعَ عَلِيٌّ أملاكاً كانَ عُثمانُ أقطَعَها جَماعَةً مِنَ المُسلِمينَ، وقَسَمَ ما في بَيتِ المالِ عَلَى النّاسِ، ولَم يُفَضِّلُ أحَداً عَلى أحَد.³

242. مروج الذهب ـ في ذِكرِ حَربِ الجَمَلِ ـ: قَبَضَ ] عَلِيٌّ علیه السلام [ ما كانَ في مُعَسكَرِهِم مِن سِلاحٍ ودابَّةٍ ومَتاعٍ وآلَةٍ وغَيرِ ذلِكَ فَباعَهُ، وقَسَمَهُ بَينَ أصحابِهِ، وأخَذَ لِنَفسِهِ كَما أخَذَ لِكُلِّ واحِدٍ مِمَّن مَعَهُ مِن أصحابِهِ وأهلِهِ ووُلدِهِ؛ خَمسَمِئَةِ دِرهَمٍ.
فَأَتاهُ رَجُلٌ مِن أصحابِهِ، فَقالَ: يا أميرَ المُؤمِنينَ، إنّي لَم آخُذ شَيئاً، وخَلَّفَني عَنِ الحُضورِ كَذا ـ وأدلىٰ بِعُذرٍ ـ فَأَعطاهُ الخَمسَمِئَةِ الَّتي كانَت لَهُ.⁴