أُتِيَ عُمَرُ بْنُ الْخَطَّابِ بِرَجُلٍ قَدْ قَتَلَ أَخَا رَجُلٍ فَدَفَعَهُ إِلَيْهِ وَ أَمَرَهُ بِقَتْلِهِ فَضَرَبَهُ الرَّجُلُ حَتَّى رَأَى أَنَّهُ قَدْ قَتَلَهُ فَحُمِلَ إِلَى مَنْزِلِهِ فَوَجَدُوا بِهِ رَمَقاً فَعَالَجُوهُ فَبَرَأَ فَلَمَّا خَرَجَ أَخَذَهُ أَخُو الْمَقْتُولِ الْأَوَّلِ فَقَالَ أَنْتَ قَاتِلُ أَخِي وَ لِي أَنْ أَقْتُلَكَ فَقَالَ قَدْ قَتَلْتَنِي مَرَّةً فَانْطَلَقَ بِهِ إِلَى عُمَرَ فَأَمَرَهُ بِقَتْلِهِ فَخَرَجَ وَ هُوَ يَقُولُ وَ اللَّهِ قَتَلْتَنِي مَرَّةً فَمَرُّوا عَلَى أَمِيرِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ( عليه السلام ) فَأَخْبَرَهُ خَبَرَهُ فَقَالَ لَا تَعْجَلْ حَتَّى أَخْرُجَ إِلَيْكَ فَدَخَلَ عَلَى عُمَرَ فَقَالَ لَيْسَ الْحُكْمُ فِيهِ هَكَذَا فَقَالَ مَا هُوَ يَا أَبَا الْحَسَنِ فَقَالَ يَقْتَصُّ هَذَا مِنْ أَخِي الْمَقْتُولِ الْأَوَّلِ مَا صَنَعَ بِهِ ثُمَّ يَقْتُلُهُ بِأَخِيهِ فَنَظَرَ الرَّجُلُ أَنَّهُ إِنِ اقْتَصَّ مِنْهُ أَتَى عَلَى نَفْسِهِ فَعَفَا عَنْهُ وَ تَتَارَكَا .
Translation
Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from one of his companions, from Aban Bin Usman, from the one who informed him, (It has been narrated) from one of the two (5<sup>th</sup> or 6<sup>th</sup> Imam<sup>asws</sup>) having said: ‘They came to Umar Bin Al-Khattab with a man who had killed a brother of a man, so he handed him over to him, and ordered him with his killing. So the man struck him until he saw that he had killed him. So he carried him over to his house. So they found him to be barely alive. So they treated him and he was cured. So when he went out, the brother of the first killed one seized him, so he said, ‘You are the killer of my brother, and it is for me that I kill you’. So he said, ‘You have already killed me once’. So he went with him to Umar. So he ordered him to be killed. So he went out and was saying: ‘By Allah<sup>azwj</sup>! I have already been killed once’. So they passed by Amir Al-Momineen<sup>asws</sup>. So they informed him<sup>asws</sup> of his news, so he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘Do not be hasty until I<sup>asws</sup> come out to you’. So he<sup>asws</sup> went over to Umar, so he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘The judgement regarding him is not like this!’ So he said, ‘And what is it, O Abu Al-Hassan<sup>asws</sup>?’ So he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘He has the right to do to the brother of the deceased what he has done to the killer, then he can subject the killer to retaliation for his deceased brother. Then he would be killed by his brother’. So the man (brother of the deceased) realised that if he retaliates, it would come upon his soul. So, he forgave him, and they both left’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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