Hadith record

Ibn Abu Umeyr, from Umar Bin Aina, from Zurara who said, ‘I asked Abu Abdullah asws about the compurgation (sworn endorsements), so he asws said: ‘It is truth. A man from the Helpers was found killed in a well from the wells of the Jews. So they came to Rasool-Allah saww , so they said, ‘O Rasool-Allah saww ! We found a man from us killed in a well from the wells of the Jews’. So he saww said: ‘Come to me with two witnesses from other than you all’. They said, ‘O Rasool-Allah saww ! There are no two witnesses for us from others’. So Rasool-Allah saww said to them: ‘So let fifty men from you swear upon a man, we shall hand him over to you’. They said, ‘O Rasool-Allah saww ! And how can we swear upon what we have not seen?’ He saww said: ‘So the Jew should swear’. So they said, ‘O Rasool-Allah saww ! And how can we be pleased with the Jew and what is among them from the grievous Polytheism?’ So Rasool-Allah saww paid it’. Zurara said, ‘Abu Abdullah asws said; ‘But rather, the compurgation (sworn endorsements) has been made to be as a precaution for the blood of the people so that when the immoral intends to kill a man, or assassinate a man where no one would see him, he would fear that, and be prevented from the killing’.

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