Hadith record

Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad Bin Isa, from one of his companions, from Muhammad Bin Al Fuzayl, from Amro Bin Abu Al Miqdam who said, ‘I was present at the Sacred House (Kabah) and a man called out to Abu Ja’far Al Mansour (the Caliph), and he was circumambulating, and he was saying, ‘O commander of the faithful! These two men went to my brother at night and took him out from his house, and he has not returned to me. By Allah azwj ! I do not know what these two have done with him’. So he said to the two, ‘What did you two do to him?’ So they both said, ‘O commander of the faithful! We (only) spoke to him and returned him back to his home’. So he said to them both, ‘Meet me tomorrow after Al-Asr Prayer, and this very place’. So they both came the next day after Al-Asr Prayer, and he was present. So he said to Ja’far Bin Muhammad asws , and he had grabbed his asws hand, ‘O Ja’far asws ! Judge between them’. So he asws said, ‘O commander of the faithful, you judge between them’. So he said to him asws , ‘By my right upon you asws , (it shall not be) except that you asws would judge between them’. He (the narrator) said, ‘So Ja’far asws came out, and a Prayer mat of reeds was spread out for him asws , and he asws sat upon it. Then the disputants came over, so they sat facing him asws . So he asws said: ‘What are you saying? ‘He said, ‘O son asws of Rasool-Allah saww ! These two went over to my brother at night, so they brought him out from his home. By Allah azwj , he has not returned to me, and by Allah azwj , I do not know what they both did to him’. So he asws said: ‘So what are you two saying?’ So they both said, ‘O son asws of Rasool-Allah saww ! We spoke to him, then he returned to his home’. So Ja’far asws said: ‘O slave, write! In the Name of Allah azwj the Beneficent, the Merciful! Rasool-Allah saww said: ‘Everyone who comes to a man at night, so he brings him out from his home, so he is responsible for him except if the proof is established that he has returned him to his home’. O slave! Seize this one, so strike his neck!’ So he said, ‘O son asws of Rasool-Allah saww ! By Allah azwj , it was not I that killed him, but I restrained him, then this one came over, so he ambushed him and killed him’. So he asws said: ‘I asws am son asws of Rasool-Allah saww , O slave! Seize this one, and strike the neck of the other one’. So he (the other one) said, ‘O son asws of Rasool-Allah saww ! By Allah azwj , I did not torment him, but I killed him with one strike’. So he asws ordered his (deceased’s) brother, so he struck off his neck. Then he asws ordered for the other one, so he struck his side, and to be withheld in the prison, and wrote upon his head: ‘To be held for his life, and he should be whipped every year with fifty lashes’.

Translation: HubeAli — attributed by Thaqalayn·The Arabic above is the original.