سَأَلْتُ أَبَا عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) عَنْ رَجُلٍ وُجِدَ مَقْتُولًا فَجَاءَ رَجُلَانِ إِلَى وَلِيِّهِ فَقَالَ أَحَدُهُمَا أَنَا قَتَلْتُهُ عَمْداً وَ قَالَ الْآخَرُ أَنَا قَتَلْتُهُ خَطَأً فَقَالَ إِنْ هُوَ أَخَذَ بِقَوْلِ صَاحِبِ الْعَمْدِ فَلَيْسَ لَهُ عَلَى صَاحِبِ الْخَطَإِ سَبِيلٌ وَ إِنْ أَخَذَ بِقَوْلِ صَاحِبِ الْخَطَإِ فَلَيْسَ لَهُ عَلَى صَاحِبِ الْعَمْدِ سَبِيلٌ .
Translation
Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, form Al Hassan Bin Mahboub, from Al Hassan Bin Salih who said, ‘I asked Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup> about a man who was found killed, so two men came over to his guardian, so one of the two said, ‘I killed him deliberately’, and the other one said, ‘I killed him in error’. So he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘If he takes to the words of the one with the deliberation, so there is no way for him upon the one with the error; and if he were to take to the words of the one with the error, so there is no way for him against the one with the deliberation’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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