سَأَلْتُ أَبَا عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) عَنِ الرَّجُلِ يَقْذِفُ الرَّجُلَ بِالزِّنَى فَيَعْفُو عَنْهُ وَ يَجْعَلُهُ مِنْ ذَلِكَ فِي حِلٍّ ثُمَّ إِنَّهُ بَعْدُ يَبْدُو لَهُ فِي أَنْ يُقَدِّمَهُ حَتَّى يَجْلِدَهُ قَالَ فَقَالَ لَيْسَ لَهُ حَدٌّ بَعْدَ الْعَفْوِ فَقُلْتُ لَهُ أَ رَأَيْتَ إِنْ هُوَ قَالَ يَا ابْنَ الزَّانِيَةِ فَعَفَا عَنْهُ وَ تَرَكَ ذَلِكَ لِلَّهِ فَقَالَ إِنْ كَانَتْ أُمُّهُ حَيَّةً فَلَيْسَ لَهُ أَنْ يَعْفُوَ الْعَفْوُ إِلَى أُمِّهِ مَتَى شَاءَتْ أَخَذَتْ بِحَقِّهَا قَالَ فَإِنْ كَانَتْ أُمُّهُ قَدْ مَاتَتْ فَإِنَّهُ وَلِيُّ أَمْرِهَا يَجُوزُ عَفْوُهُ .
Translation
Ibn Mahboub, from Abu Ayoub, from Sama’at who said, ‘I asked Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup> about the man who slandered the man with the adultery. So he excused him from it and he made him to be free from that. Is it for him to begin (proceedings) that he can bring him up until he is whipped (for it)?’ So he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘There is no Penalty (<span class="iTxt">Hadd</span>) for him after the excusing’. So I said to him<sup>asws</sup>, ‘What is your view that he said, ‘O son of the adulteress’, so he excused from it and left that to Allah<sup>azwj</sup>’. So he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘If his mother was alive, so it is not for him that he should excuse. The excusing it is for his mother whenever she so desires to take her right’. He<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘If his mother had died, so he would be the guardian of her affairs, his excusing would be allowed’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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