قَضَى أَمِيرُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ( عليه السلام ) فِي رَجُلٍ دَعَا آخَرَ ابْنَ الْمَجْنُونِ فَقَالَ لَهُ الْآخَرُ أَنْتَ ابْنُ الْمَجْنُونِ فَأَمَرَ الْأَوَّلَ أَنْ يَجْلِدَ صَاحِبَهُ عِشْرِينَ جَلْدَةً وَ قَالَ لَهُ اعْلَمْ أَنَّهُ مُسْتَحِقٌّ مِثْلَهَا عِشْرِينَ فَلَمَّا جَلَدَهُ أَعْطَى الْمَجْلُودَ السَّوْطَ فَجَلَدَهُ نَكَالًا يُنَكِّلُ بِهِمَا .
Translation
Ali Bin Ibrahim, from Salih Bin Al Sindy, from Ja’far Bin Basheer, from Al Husayn Bin Abu Al A’la, from Abu Makhlad Al Sarraj, (It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup> having said: ‘Amir Al-Momineen<sup>asws</sup> judged regarding a man who called another, ‘Son of the insane’. So the other one said to him, ‘You are a son of the insane’. So he<sup>asws</sup> ordered that the first one (who was slandered) to whip his companion with twenty lashes, and said to him, ‘Know that he is also deserving the like of it, twenty’. So when he had whipped him, he<sup>asws</sup> gave the whip to the whipped one, so he whipped him, being a lesson to be learnt by both of them’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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