إِذَا أَخَذْتَ أَسِيراً فَعَجَزَ عَنِ الْمَشْيِ وَ لَيْسَ مَعَكَ مَحْمِلٌ فَأَرْسِلْهُ وَ لَا تَقْتُلْهُ فَإِنَّكَ لَا تَدْرِي مَا حُكْمُ الْإِمَامِ فِيهِ قَالَ وَ قَالَ الْأَسِيرُ إِذَا أَسْلَمَ فَقَدْ حُقِنَ دَمُهُ وَ صَارَ فَيْئاً .
Translation
Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Al Qasim Bin Muhammad, from Al Miqary, from Isa Bin Yunus, from Al Awzary, from al Zuhry, (It has been narrated) from Ali<sup>asws</sup> Bin Al-Husayn<sup>asws</sup> having said: ‘Whenever you take a prisoner, so he is frustrated from the walking and there is no carrier with you, so send him (back home) and do not kill him, for you do not know what is the decision of the Imam<sup>asws</sup> regarding him’. He (the narrator) said, ‘And he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘The prisoner, when he becomes a Muslim, so he has saved his blood and becomes one of us’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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