سَأَلْتُ أَبَا عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) عَنِ الْقَسَامَةِ فَقَالَ هِيَ حَقٌّ إِنَّ رَجُلًا مِنَ الْأَنْصَارِ وُجِدَ قَتِيلًا فِي قَلِيبٍ مِنْ قُلُبِ الْيَهُودِ فَأَتَوْا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) فَقَالُوا يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ إِنَّا وَجَدْنَا رَجُلًا مِنَّا قَتِيلًا فِي قَلِيبٍ مِنْ قُلُبِ الْيَهُودِ فَقَالَ ائْتُونِي بِشَاهِدَيْنِ مِنْ غَيْرِكُمْ قَالُوا يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ مَا لَنَا شَاهِدَانِ مِنْ غَيْرِنَا فَقَالَ لَهُمْ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) فَلْيُقْسِمْ خَمْسُونَ رَجُلًا مِنْكُمْ عَلَى رَجُلٍ نَدْفَعُهُ إِلَيْكُمْ قَالُوا يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ وَ كَيْفَ نُقْسِمُ عَلَى مَا لَمْ نَرَهُ قَالَ فَيُقْسِمُ الْيَهُودُ قَالُوا يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ وَ كَيْفَ نَرْضَى بِالْيَهُودِ وَ مَا فِيهِمْ مِنَ الشِّرْكِ أَعْظَمُ فَوَدَاهُ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) قَالَ زُرَارَةُ قَالَ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) إِنَّمَا جُعِلَتِ الْقَسَامَةُ احْتِيَاطاً لِدِمَاءِ النَّاسِ لِكَيْمَا إِذَا أَرَادَ الْفَاسِقُ أَنْ يَقْتُلَ رَجُلًا أَوْ يَغْتَالَ رَجُلًا حَيْثُ لَا يَرَاهُ أَحَدٌ خَافَ ذَلِكَ وَ امْتَنَعَ مِنَ الْقَتْلِ .
Translation
Ibn Abu Umeyr, from Umar Bin Aina, from Zurara who said, ‘I asked Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup> about the compurgation (sworn endorsements), so he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘It is truth. A man from the Helpers was found killed in a well from the wells of the Jews. So they came to Rasool-Allah<sup>saww</sup>, so they said, ‘O Rasool-Allah<sup>saww</sup>! We found a man from us killed in a well from the wells of the Jews’. So he<sup>saww</sup> said: ‘Come to me with two witnesses from other than you all’. They said, ‘O Rasool-Allah<sup>saww</sup>! There are no two witnesses for us from others’. So Rasool-Allah<sup>saww</sup> said to them: ‘So let fifty men from you swear upon a man, we shall hand him over to you’. They said, ‘O Rasool-Allah <sup>saww</sup>! And how can we swear upon what we have not seen?’ He<sup>saww</sup> said: ‘So the Jew should swear’. So they said, ‘O Rasool-Allah<sup>saww</sup>! And how can we be pleased with the Jew and what is among them from the grievous Polytheism?’ So Rasool-Allah<sup>saww</sup> paid it’. Zurara said, ‘Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup> said; ‘But rather, the compurgation (sworn endorsements) has been made to be as a precaution for the blood of the people so that when the immoral intends to kill a man, or assassinate a man where no one would see him, he would fear that, and be prevented from the killing’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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