Al-Kafi 14035

Translation

Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Muhammad Bin Al Waleed, from Muhammad Bin Al Furaat, from Al Asbagh Bin Nubata, raising it, said, ‘They came to Umar with five people who had committed adultery. So he ordered that the Penalty (<span class="iTxt">Hadd</span>) be established upon each one of them, and Amir Al-Momineen^asws was present. So he^asws said: ‘O Umar! This is not (supposed to be) their judgement’. So he said, ‘So you^asws establish the judgement upon them’. So they brought forward one of them, so he^asws struck his neck; and they brought the second one, so he^asws stoned him; and they brought the third one, so he^asws whipped him the Penalty (<span class="iTxt">Hadd</span>); and they brought the fourth, so he^asws whipped him half the Penalty (<span class="iTxt">Hadd</span>); and they brought the fifth, so he^asws reprimanded him’. So Umar was confounded and the people were astounded from his^asws actions. So Umar said, ‘O Abu Al-Hassan^asws, five people in one judgement, five judgements being established upon them, not a thing from it resembling the other!’ So Amir Al-Momineen^asws said: ‘As for the first one, he was a <span class="iTxt">Zimmi</span> (under the responsibility) who had exited from the responsibility (of the government), there was no judgement for him except for the sword. And as for the second one, so he was a married man, his Penalty (<span class="iTxt">Hadd</span>) was the stoning. And as for the third one, so he was not married, was whipped the Penalty (<span class="iTxt">Hadd</span>). And as for the fourth one, so he was a slave, we whipped him half the Penalty (<span class="iTxt">Hadd</span>); and as for the fifth, so he was an insane, his intellect had been overcome’.

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