قَضَى أَمِيرُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ( عليه السلام ) فِي رَجُلٍ أُمِرَ بِهِ أَنْ يُقْطَعَ يَمِينُهُ فَقُدِّمَتْ شِمَالُهُ فَقَطَعُوهَا وَ حَسَبُوهَا يَمِينَهُ وَ قَالُوا إِنَّمَا قَطَعْنَا شِمَالَهُ أَ تُقْطَعُ يَمِينُهُ قَالَ فَقَالَ لَا يُقْطَعُ يَمِينُهُ وَ قَدْ قُطِعَتْ شِمَالُهُ وَ قَالَ فِي رَجُلٍ أَخَذَ بَيْضَةً مِنَ الْمَغْنَمِ وَ قَالُوا قَدْ سَرَقَ اقْطَعْهُ فَقَالَ إِنِّي لَمْ أَقْطَعْ أَحَداً لَهُ فِيمَا أَخَذَ شِرْكٌ .
Translation
Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, and a number of our companions, from Sahl Bin Ziyad, altogether from Ibn Abu Najran, from Aasim Bin Humeyd, from Muhammad Bin Qays, (It has been narrated) from Abu Ja’far<sup>asws</sup> having said: ‘Amir Al-Momineen<sup>asws</sup> judged regarding a man whom he<sup>asws</sup> ordered for his right hand to be cut. So he placed forward his left hand, so they cut it off, and reckoned it as his right, and they said, ‘But rather, we have cut off his left, shall his right be cut off (as well)?’ So he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘His right hand would not be cut off, and his left has already been cut’. And he<sup>asws</sup> said regarding a man who took a helmet from the war booty, and they said, ‘He has stolen, so cut him’. So he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘I<sup>asws</sup> would not cut any who is a participant in what he has taken’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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