قُلْتُ لِأَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) لَوْ أَنَّ رَجُلًا قَالَ لِرَجُلٍ يَا ابْنَ الْفَاعِلَةِ يَعْنِي الزِّنَى وَ كَانَ لِلْمَقْذُوفِ أَخٌ لِأَبِيهِ وَ أُمِّهِ فَعَفَا أَحَدُهُمَا عَنِ الْقَاذِفِ وَ أَرَادَ أَحَدُهُمَا أَنْ يُقَدِّمَهُ إِلَى الْوَالِي وَ يَجْلِدَهُ أَ كَانَ ذَلِكَ لَهُ فَقَالَ أَ لَيْسَ أُمُّهُ هِيَ أُمَّ الَّذِي عَفَا قُلْتُ نَعَمْ ثُمَّ قَالَ إِنَّ الْعَفْوَ إِلَيْهِمَا جَمِيعاً إِذَا كَانَتْ أُمُّهُمَا مَيِّتَةً فَالْأَمْرُ إِلَيْهِمَا فِي الْعَفْوِ فَإِنْ كَانَتْ حَيَّةً فَالْأَمْرُ إِلَيْهَا فِي الْعَفْوِ .
Translation
Ali Bin Ibrahim, form his father and Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad Bin Isa, altogether from Al Hassan Bin Mahboub, from Hisham Bin Salim, from Ammar Al Sabaty who said, ‘I said to Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup>, ‘If a man says to a man, ‘O son of the ‘sexually active’, meaning the adultery, and for the slandered one is a brother of his father and his mother, so one of the two excused the slanderer and one of the two wanted that he should be brought to the ruler, and he would be whipped. Is that for him?’ So he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘Is his mother not alive, the mother who excused him?’ I said, ‘Yes’. He<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘The excusing is for the both of them together when the mother is dead, so the matter would be for the both of them with regards to the excusing. So if she was alive, so the matter is for her, with regards to the excusing’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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