some people walked to alasmai with a merchant who had bought his fruit due to a loss he had incurred. hassan alnazar and altatiyyah asked him about it. alasmai said have you heard of unfair division? by god it is not what you want your sheikh to do. he bought from me on the condition that the loss would be mine and the profit would be his. this and your father is the trade of abu alanbas. go and buy from me the food of iraq on this condition on the condition that i
تمشى قوم إلى الأصمعي مع تاجر كان اشترى ثمرته، لخسران كان ناله. وسأله حسن النظر والحطيطة ٣ . فقال الأصمعي أسمعتم بالقسمة الضيزى ٤ ؟ هي والله ما تريدون شيخكم عليه. اشترى مني على أن يكون الخسران علي، والربح له. هذا وأبيكم تجارة أبي العنبس ٥ . اذهبوا فاشتروا علي طعام العراق على هذا الشرط؛ على أني