أَرْبَعَةٍ شَهِدُوا عَلَى رَجُلٍ أَنَّهُمْ رَأَوْهُ مَعَ امْرَأَةٍ يُجَامِعُهَا فَيُرْجَمُ ثُمَّ يَرْجِعُ وَاحِدٌ مِنْهُمْ قَالَ يُغَرَّمُ رُبُعَ الدِّيَةِ إِذَا قَالَ شُبِّهَ عَلَيَّ فَإِنْ رَجَعَ اثْنَانِ وَ قَالَا شُبِّهَ عَلَيْنَا غُرِّمَا نِصْفَ الدِّيَةِ وَ إِنْ رَجَعُوا جَمِيعاً وَ قَالُوا شُبِّهَ عَلَيْنَا غُرِّمُوا الدِّيَةَ وَ إِنْ قَالُوا شَهِدْنَا بِالزُّورِ قُتِلُوا جَمِيعاً .
Translation
A number of our companions, from Sahl Bin Ziyad, from Muhammad Bin Al Hassan Bin Shamoun, from Abdullah Bin Abdul Rahman, from Misma’a, (It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup> that Amir Al-Momineen<sup>asws</sup> judged regarding four witnesses upon a man who had seen him copulating with a woman. So he was stoned. Then one of them retracted (his statement). He<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘He would be fined a quarter of the wergild, when he says, ‘It was doubtful to me’. So if two were to retract, and they both say, ‘It was doubtful upon us’, they would both be fined half the wergild. And if all of them were to retract, and they say, ‘It was doubtful upon us’, they would be fined the (complete) wergild. But if they were to say, ‘We testified falsely’, they would be killed all together’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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