قُلْتُ لِأَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) مَا تَقُولُ فِي رَجُلٍ ضَرَبَ رَجُلًا فَنَقَصَ بَعْضُ نَفَسِهِ بِأَيِّ شَيْءٍ يُعْرَفُ ذَلِكَ قَالَ ذَلِكَ بِالسَّاعَاتِ قُلْتُ وَ كَيْفَ بِالسَّاعَاتِ قَالَ فَإِنَّ النَّفَسَ يَطْلُعُ الْفَجْرُ وَ هُوَ فِي الشِّقِّ الْأَيْمَنِ مِنَ الْأَنْفِ فَإِذَا مَضَتِ السَّاعَةُ صَارَ إِلَى الشِّقِّ الْأَيْسَرِ فَتَنْظُرُ مَا بَيْنَ نَفَسِكَ وَ نَفَسِهِ ثُمَّ يُحْتَسَبُ فَيُؤْخَذُ بِحِسَابِ ذَلِكَ مِنْهُ .
Translation
Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Muhammad Bin Al Husayn, from Muhammad Bin Ismail, from Salih Bin Uqba, from Rafa’at who said, ‘I said to Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup>, ‘What are you<sup>asws</sup> saying regarding a man who struck a man, so some of his breathing was deficient. With what thing would that be known?’ He<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘By the timing’. I said, ‘And how by the timing?’ He<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘At the emergence of dawn, he is breathing, and it is from the right nostril. So when an hour goes by, he (comes to be) breathing by the left nostril. So you would look at what (difference) there is between your breathing, and his breathing. Then it would be reckoned, so he would be taking by that counting from it’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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