سَأَلْتُ أَبَا جَعْفَرٍ ( عليه السلام ) عَنْ رَجُلٍ قَتَلَ رَجُلًا مَجْنُوناً فَقَالَ إِنْ كَانَ الْمَجْنُونُ أَرَادَهُ فَدَفَعَهُ عَنْ نَفْسِهِ فَقَتَلَهُ فَلَا شَيْءَ عَلَيْهِ مِنْ قَوَدٍ وَ لَا دِيَةٍ وَ يُعْطَى وَرَثَتُهُ دِيَتَهُ مِنْ بَيْتِ مَالِ الْمُسْلِمِينَ قَالَ وَ إِنْ كَانَ قَتَلَهُ مِنْ غَيْرِ أَنْ يَكُونَ الْمَجْنُونُ أَرَادَهُ فَلَا قَوَدَ لِمَنْ لَا يُقَادُ مِنْهُ فَأَرَى أَنَّ عَلَى قَاتِلِهِ الدِّيَةَ مِنْ مَالِهِ يَدْفَعُهَا إِلَى وَرَثَةِ الْمَجْنُونِ وَ يَسْتَغْفِرُ اللَّهَ وَ يَتُوبُ إِلَيْهِ .
Translation
A number of our companions, from Sahl Bin Ziyad and Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, both together from Ibn Mahboub, from Ali Bin Raib, from Abu Baseer who said, ‘I asked Abu Ja’far<sup>asws</sup> about a man who killed an insane man. So he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘If it was that the insane intended (to kill) him, so he defended himself, so he killed him, then there is nothing upon him from a retaliation, nor a wergild, and his inheritors would be given his wergild from the public treasury of the Muslims. If his killing was from other than the insane happened to have intended (to kill) him, so there is no retaliation for the one from whom there is no retaliation. So I<sup>asws</sup> see the wergild to be upon his killer from his own wealth, to be handed over to the inheritors of the insane, and he should seek Forgiveness of Allah<sup>azwj</sup> and repent to Him<sup>azwj</sup>’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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