أَخْبَرَنِي بَعْضُ أَصْحَابِنَا رَفَعَهُ إِلَى أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) قَالَ أُتِيَ أَمِيرُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ( عليه السلام ) بِرَجُلٍ وُجِدَ فِي خَرِبَةٍ وَ بِيَدِهِ سِكِّينٌ مُلَطَّخٌ بِالدَّمِ وَ إِذَا رَجُلٌ مَذْبُوحٌ يَتَشَحَّطُ فِي دَمِهِ فَقَالَ لَهُ أَمِيرُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ( عليه السلام ) مَا تَقُولُ قَالَ يَا أَمِيرَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ أَنَا قَتَلْتُهُ قَالَ اذْهَبُوا بِهِ فَاقْتُلُوهُ بِهِ فَلَمَّا ذَهَبُوا بِهِ لِيَقْتُلُوهُ بِهِ أَقْبَلَ رَجُلٌ مُسْرِعاً فَقَالَ لَا تَعْجَلُوا وَ رُدُّوهُ إِلَى أَمِيرِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ( عليه السلام ) فَرَدُّوهُ فَقَالَ وَ اللَّهِ يَا أَمِيرَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ مَا هَذَا صَاحِبَهُ أَنَا قَتَلْتُهُ فَقَالَ أَمِيرُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ( عليه السلام ) لِلْأَوَّلِ مَا حَمَلَكَ عَلَى إِقْرَارِكَ عَلَى نَفْسِكَ وَ لَمْ تَفْعَلْ فَقَالَ يَا أَمِيرَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ وَ مَا كُنْتُ أَسْتَطِيعُ أَنْ أَقُولَ وَ قَدْ شَهِدَ عَلَيَّ أَمْثَالُ هَؤُلَاءِ الرِّجَالِ وَ أَخَذُونِي وَ بِيَدِي سِكِّينٌ مُلَطَّخٌ بِالدَّمِ وَ الرَّجُلُ يَتَشَحَّطُ فِي دَمِهِ وَ أَنَا قَائِمٌ عَلَيْهِ وَ خِفْتُ الضَّرْبَ فَأَقْرَرْتُ وَ أَنَا رَجُلٌ كُنْتُ ذَبَحْتُ بِجَنْبِ هَذِهِ الْخَرِبَةِ شَاةً وَ أَخَذَنِي الْبَوْلُ فَدَخَلْتُ الْخَرِبَةَ فَرَأَيْتُ الرَّجُلَ يَتَشَحَّطُ فِي دَمِهِ فَقُمْتُ مُتَعَجِّباً فَدَخَلَ عَلَيَّ هَؤُلَاءِ فَأَخَذُونِي فَقَالَ أَمِيرُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ( عليه السلام ) خُذُوا هَذَيْنِ فَاذْهَبُوا بِهِمَا إِلَى الْحَسَنِ وَ قُصُّوا عَلَيْهِ قِصَّتَهُمَا وَ قُولُوا لَهُ مَا الْحُكْمُ فِيهِمَا فَذَهَبُوا إِلَى الْحَسَنِ ( عليه السلام ) وَ قَصُّوا عَلَيْهِ قِصَّتَهُمَا فَقَالَ الْحَسَنُ ( عليه السلام ) قُولُوا لِأَمِيرِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ( عليه السلام ) إِنَّ هَذَا إِنْ كَانَ ذَبَحَ ذَاكَ فَقَدْ أَحْيَا هَذَا وَ قَدْ قَالَ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ وَ مَنْ أَحْياها فَكَأَنَّما أَحْيَا النَّاسَ جَمِيعاً يُخَلَّى عَنْهُمَا وَ تُخْرَجُ دِيَةُ الْمَذْبُوحِ مِنْ بَيْتِ الْمَالِ .
Translation
Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from one of our companions, Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup> has said: ‘They came to Amir Al-Momineen<sup>asws</sup> with a man (who was found in) some ruins, and in his hand was a knife soaked in blood, and there was a slaughtered man soaked in his blood. So Amir Al-Momineen<sup>asws</sup> said to him: ‘What are you saying?’ He said, ‘O Amir Al-Momineen<sup>asws</sup>! I killed him’. He<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘Go away with him, so kill him’. So when they went away with him in order to kill him, a man came over in haste, so he said, ‘Do not be hasty, and return him to Amir Al-Momineen<sup>asws</sup>!’ So they returned him. So he said, ‘By Allah<sup>azwj</sup>, O Amir Al-Momineen<sup>asws</sup>! This one is not its perpetrator, it was I who killed him’. So Amir Al-Momineen<sup>asws</sup> said to the first one: ‘What carried you upon your confession against your own self, and you did not do it?’ So he said, ‘O Amir Al-Momineen<sup>asws</sup>, and I did not have the ability that I should be saying (anything in my defense), and there had testified against me the likes of these men, and they seized me, and in my hand was a knife soaked with the blood, and the man was soaked in his blood, and I was standing over him, and I feared the beating. So I confessed, and I am a man who had gone to slaughter a sheep by the side of these ruins, and I was seized (by the need for) the urination. So I entered the ruins, and I saw the man soaked in his blood. So I stood there wondering, and they came over to me, so they seized me’. So Amir Al-Momineen<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘Take these two and go with them both to Al-Hassan<sup>asws</sup>, and related both their stories to him<sup>asws</sup> and say to him<sup>asws</sup>: ‘What is the decision with regards to these two?’ So they went to Al-Hassan<sup>asws</sup> and related the both their stories to him<sup>asws</sup>. So Al-Hassan<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘Say to Amir Al-Momineen<sup>asws</sup>, ‘If this one has killed him so he has revived this one, and Allah<sup>azwj</sup> Mighty and Majestic Says <span class="ibTxt"><a href="/#/books/quran:5#h32"><a href="/books/quran:5#h32">[5:32]</a></a> and whoever keeps it alive, it is as though he kept alive all men</span>. Free them both and take the wergild of the slaughtered one from the public treasury’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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