. عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ أَبِي نَصْرٍ عَنْ إِسْمَاعِيلَ بْنِ أَبِي حَنِيفَةَ عَنْ أَبِي حَنِيفَةَ قَالَ قُلْتُ لِأَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) كَيْفَ صَارَ الْقَتْلُ يَجُوزُ فِيهِ شَاهِدَانِ وَ الزِّنَى لَا يَجُوزُ فِيهِ إِلَّا أَرْبَعَةُ شُهُودٍ وَ الْقَتْلُ أَشَدُّ مِنَ الزِّنَى فَقَالَ لِأَنَّ الْقَتْلَ فِعْلٌ وَاحِدٌ وَ الزِّنَى فِعْلَانِ فَمِنْ ثَمَّ لَا يَجُوزُ إِلَّا أَرْبَعَةُ شُهُودٍ عَلَى الرَّجُلِ شَاهِدَانِ وَ عَلَى الْمَرْأَةِ شَاهِدَانِ وَ رَوَاهُ بَعْضُ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْهُ قَالَ فَقَالَ لِي مَا عِنْدَكُمْ يَا أَبَا حَنِيفَةَ قَالَ قُلْتُ مَا عِنْدَنَا فِيهِ إِلَّا حَدِيثُ عُمَرَ أَنَّ اللَّهَ أَخَذَ فِي الشَّهَادَةِ كَلِمَتَيْنِ عَلَى الْعِبَادِ قَالَ فَقَالَ لِي لَيْسَ كَذَلِكَ يَا أَبَا حَنِيفَةَ وَ لَكِنَّ الزِّنَى فِيهِ حَدَّانِ وَ لَا يَجُوزُ إِلَّا أَنْ يَشْهَدَ كُلُّ اثْنَيْنِ عَلَى وَاحِدٍ لِأَنَّ الرَّجُلَ وَ الْمَرْأَةَ جَمِيعاً عَلَيْهِمَا الْحَدُّ وَ الْقَتْلُ إِنَّمَا يُقَامُ عَلَى الْقَاتِلِ وَ يُدْفَعُ عَنِ الْمَقْتُولِ .
Translation
A number of our companions, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad Bin Khalid, from Muhammad Bin Aslam, from one of the (people of Qum), (It has been narrated) from Abu Al Hassan Al-Reza<sup>asws</sup> – similar to it’. Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad Bin Abu Nasr, from Ismail Bin Abu Haneefa, from Abu Haneefa who said, ‘I said to Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup>, ‘How did it come to be that regarding the killing two witnesses are allowed in it, and regarding the adultery, there are not allowed in it except for four witnesses, and the killing is more harsher than the adultery?’ So he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘Because the killed is one act, but the adultery are two acts, thus it is not allowed except for four witnesses, upon the man being two witnesses, and upon the woman being two witnesses’. And it is reported from one of our companions, from him (Abu Haneefa), who said, ‘So he<sup>asws</sup> said to me: ‘So what is with you, O Abu Haneefa?’ I said, ‘There is nothing with me with regards to it except a Hadeeth of Umar, that Allah<sup>azwj</sup> would Seize, regarding the testimony, two words upon the servants’. So he<sup>asws</sup> said to me: ‘It is not like that, O Abu Haneefa! But, the adultery, in it are two legal penalties, and it is not allowed except that two should testify upon (each) one, because the man and the woman both together, upon them both is the legal penalty, while the killing, rather is established upon the killer, and averted from the killer’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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