قُلْتُ لِأَبِي الْحَسَنِ ( عليه السلام ) إِنَّ اللَّهَ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ يَقُولُ فِي كِتَابِهِ وَ مَنْ قُتِلَ مَظْلُوماً فَقَدْ جَعَلْنا لِوَلِيِّهِ سُلْطاناً فَلا يُسْرِفْ فِي الْقَتْلِ إِنَّهُ كانَ مَنْصُوراً فَمَا هَذَا الْإِسْرَافُ الَّذِي نَهَى اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ عَنْهُ قَالَ نَهَى أَنْ يَقْتُلَ غَيْرَ قَاتِلِهِ أَوْ يُمَثِّلَ بِالْقَاتِلِ قُلْتُ فَمَا مَعْنَى قَوْلِهِ إِنَّهُ كانَ مَنْصُوراً قَالَ وَ أَيُّ نُصْرَةٍ أَعْظَمُ مِنْ أَنْ يُدْفَعَ الْقَاتِلُ إِلَى أَوْلِيَاءِ الْمَقْتُولِ فَيَقْتُلَهُ وَ لَا تَبِعَةَ تَلْزَمُهُ مِنْ قَتْلِهِ فِي دِينٍ وَ لَا دُنْيَا .
Translation
Ali Bin Muhammad, from one of his companions, from Muhammad Bin Suleyman, from Sayf Bin Umeyra, from Is’haq Bin Ammar who said, ‘I said to Abu Al-Hassan<sup>asws</sup> that Allah<sup>azwj</sup> Mighty and Majestic is Saying in His<sup>azwj</sup> Book <span class="ibTxt"><a href="/#/books/quran:17#h33"><a href="/books/quran:17#h33">[17:33]</a></a> And do not kill any one whom Allah has Forbidden, except with the right; and whoever is killed unjustly, We have indeed Given to his heir authority, so let him not be excessive with regards to the killing; surely he would always be Aided</span>. So what is this excessiveness which Allah<sup>azwj</sup> Mighty and Majestic has Forbidden from?’ He<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘Forbidden that he should kill anyone other than his killer, or dismembering the killer’. I said, ‘So what is the Meaning of His<sup>azwj</sup> Words <span class="ibTxt">surely he would always be Aided</span>. He<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘And which Aid is greater than that the killer should be handed over to the guardians of the killed-one, so they can kill him and there would be no follow-up (consequences) from killing him (the killer), neither in Religion nor in the world’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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