Hadith record

Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from one of our companions, Abu Abdullah asws has said: ‘They came to Amir Al-Momineen asws with a man (who was found in) some ruins, and in his hand was a knife soaked in blood, and there was a slaughtered man soaked in his blood. So Amir Al-Momineen asws said to him: ‘What are you saying?’ He said, ‘O Amir Al-Momineen asws ! I killed him’. He asws said: ‘Go away with him, so kill him’. So when they went away with him in order to kill him, a man came over in haste, so he said, ‘Do not be hasty, and return him to Amir Al-Momineen asws !’ So they returned him. So he said, ‘By Allah azwj , O Amir Al-Momineen asws ! This one is not its perpetrator, it was I who killed him’. So Amir Al-Momineen asws said to the first one: ‘What carried you upon your confession against your own self, and you did not do it?’ So he said, ‘O Amir Al-Momineen asws , and I did not have the ability that I should be saying (anything in my defense), and there had testified against me the likes of these men, and they seized me, and in my hand was a knife soaked with the blood, and the man was soaked in his blood, and I was standing over him, and I feared the beating. So I confessed, and I am a man who had gone to slaughter a sheep by the side of these ruins, and I was seized (by the need for) the urination. So I entered the ruins, and I saw the man soaked in his blood. So I stood there wondering, and they came over to me, so they seized me’. So Amir Al-Momineen asws said: ‘Take these two and go with them both to Al-Hassan asws , and related both their stories to him asws and say to him asws : ‘What is the decision with regards to these two?’ So they went to Al-Hassan asws and related the both their stories to him asws . So Al-Hassan asws said: ‘Say to Amir Al-Momineen asws , ‘If this one has killed him so he has revived this one, and Allah azwj Mighty and Majestic Says [5:32] and whoever keeps it alive, it is as though he kept alive all men . Free them both and take the wergild of the slaughtered one from the public treasury’.

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