سَمِعْتُ أَبَا عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) يَقُولُ فِي رَجُلٍ قَتَلَ امْرَأَةً مُتَعَمِّداً فَقَالَ إِنْ شَاءَ أَهْلُهَا أَنْ يَقْتُلُوهُ وَ يُؤَدُّوا إِلَى أَهْلِهِ نِصْفَ الدِّيَةِ وَ إِنْ شَاءُوا أَخَذُوا نِصْفَ الدِّيَةِ خَمْسَةَ آلَافِ دِرْهَمٍ وَ قَالَ فِي امْرَأَةٍ قَتَلَتْ زَوْجَهَا مُتَعَمِّداً فَقَالَ إِنْ شَاءَ أَهْلُهُ أَنْ يَقْتُلُوهُ قَتَلُوهَا وَ لَيْسَ يَجْنِي أَحَدٌ أَكْثَرَ مِنْ جِنَايَتِهِ عَلَى نَفْسِهِ .
Translation
Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, and Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, both together from Ibn Mahboub, from Abdullah Bin Sinan who said, ‘I heard Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup> saying regarding a man who killed a woman deliberately. So he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘If her family so desire to they can kill him, and pay half the wergild to his family; and if they so desire, they can take half the wergild of five thousand Dirhams’. And he<sup>asws</sup> said regarding a woman who killed her husband deliberately, so he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘If his family so desire to, they can killer her for his killing, and no one reaps more than the crime upon himself’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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