قُلْتُ لِأَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) إِنَّ لِي خَصْماً يَتَكَثَّرُ عَلَيَّ بِالشُّهُودِ الزُّورِ وَ قَدْ كَرِهْتُ مُكَافَأَتَهُ مَعَ أَنِّي لَا أَدْرِي أَ يَصْلُحُ لِي ذَلِكَ أَمْ لَا قَالَ فَقَالَ لِي أَ مَا بَلَغَكَ عَنْ أَمِيرِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ( عليه السلام ) أَنَّهُ كَانَ يَقُولُ لَا تُؤْسِرُوا أَنْفُسَكُمْ وَ أَمْوَالَكُمْ بِشَهَادَاتِ الزُّورِ فَمَا عَلَى امْرِئٍ مِنْ وَكَفٍ فِي دِينِهِ وَ لَا مَأْثَمٍ مِنْ رَبِّهِ أَنْ يَدْفَعَ ذَلِكَ عَنْهُ كَمَا أَنَّهُ لَوْ دَفَعَ بِشَهَادَتِهِ عَنْ فَرْجٍ حَرَامٍ وَ سَفْكِ دَمٍ حَرَامٍ كَانَ ذَلِكَ خَيْراً لَهُ وَ كَذَلِكَ مَالُ الْمَرْءِ الْمُسْلِمِ .
Translation
A number of our companions, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from Muhammad Bin Ismail, from Mansour Bin Yunus, from Musa Bin Bakr, from Al Hakam Bin Abu Aqeel who said, ‘I said to Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup>, ‘For me there is an adversary (enemy) who frequently bears false testimony upon me, and I do not like to fight him, along with that I do not know whether that is correct for me or not?’ So he<sup>asws</sup> said to me: ‘But has it not reached you that Amir Al-Momineen<sup>asws</sup> was saying: ‘Do not imprison yourselves and your wealth by the false testimonies, for it is not upon a person to restrain himself in his Religion, nor a sin from his Lord<sup>azwj</sup> that he should defend that from him, just as if he were to defend by the testimony about unlawful relationships, and shedding of the unlawful blood, if that was good for him, and similar to that is the wealth of the Muslim person’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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