حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرٍ النَّيْسَابُورِيُّ ، ثنا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ أَيُّوبَ ، حَدَّثَنَا رَوْحٌ ، ثنا حَمَّادُ بْنُ سَلَمَةَ ، عَنْ حُمَيْدِ بْنِ هِلالٍ ، قَالَ : جَاءَ رَجُلٌ إِلَى الْحَسَنِ بِصَحِيفَةٍ فِيهَا مَسَائِلُ يَسْأَلُهُ عَنْهَا ، فَمَا تَتَعْتَعَ فِي شَيْءٍ مِنْهَا حَتَّى أَتَى عَلَى أَرْبَعِينَ شَاةً بَيْنَ نَفَسَيْنِ ، فَقَالَ : " فِيهَا شَاةٌ عَلَيْهِمَا " .
Humaid bin Hilal narrates: A person came to Hasan al-Basri with a scroll in which various issues were written. He asked him about this scroll, and Hasan did not find any mistake in those issues. However, when the issue came that forty goats are jointly owned by two people, he said: "Both of them are required to pay one goat."