21. Ahmad ibn Muhammad has narrated from ibn Faddal from Ibrahim ibn ‘Uthman who has said the following: “I once said to abu ‘Abd Allah , ‘There is a man who owes to me a certain amount of dirhams and his house is as al-Rahn (security deposit) with me and I want to sell it. He (the Imam) said,

‘Do you, by Allah, have the intention to take the roof away from the top of his head?”’