Al-Kafi 14246

Translation

Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father and Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, both together, from Ibn Mahboub, from Hisham Bin salim, from sowrat Bin Kuleyb, (It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah^asws, said, ‘He^asws was asked about a man who killed a man deliberately, and the killed one was with the right hand cut off. So he^asws said; ‘If it was such that his hand was cut off during a crime which was committed against himself, or it was cut so he took a wergild from the one who had cut it, so if his guardians (of the killed) one intend that they kill him (the killer), they can kill him and pay to the guardians of the killer a wergild of his hand which was retaliated from; even if it was that he had taken the wergild of his hand, and they kill him; and if they so desire to they subtract the wergild of his hand from it, and take the remainder’. He^asws said: ‘If it was that his hand was cut from other than a crime committed against himself, and a wergild was not taken by it, his killer would be killed and would not be fined anything; and if they so desire to, they take the complete wergild’. He^asws said: ‘And this is how we^asws have found it to be in the Book of Ali^asws’.

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