الكافي- ط الاسلامية, volume 7, page 266

Al Husayn Bin Muhammad, from Ali Bin Muhammad, from Al Hassan Bin Ali Al Washa who said, ‘I heard Abu Al-Hassan asws saying: ‘In the era of Ja’far asws Bin Muhammad asws , a man insulted Rasool-Allah saww . So they came with him to the governor of Al-Medina, and the people gathered. And it was near to the time of his asws illness, and upon him asws was a robe of his asws , wrapped around him asws . So they got him asws to be seated in the centre of the gathering and permitted him asws regarding the reclining, and (the governor) said to them, ‘What are your views?’ So Abdullah Bin Al-Hassan, and Al-Hassan Bin Zayd, and others said to him, ‘We view that his tongue should be cut’. So the governor turned towards Rabi’e Al-Rai’y and his companions, so he said, ‘What is your view?’ So he said, ‘He should be disciplined’. So, Abu Abdullah asws said to him: ‘Glory be to Allah azwj ! So there is no difference between Rasool-Allah saww and his saww companions?’

Translation: HubeAli·Thaqalayn link·The Arabic above is the original.

A number of our companions, from Sahl Bin Ziyad, from Muhammad Bin Suleyman Al Daylami, from Haroun Bin Al Jahm, from Muhammad Bin Muslim, Abu Ja’far asws has said: ‘They came to Amir Al-Momineen asws with a group who had stolen. So he asws cut their hands from half the palm, and left the thumb and did not cut it, and ordered them that they should enter the guest house, and ordered for the healing of their hands. So they were fed the butter, and the honey, and the meat, until they were cured. So he asws called them over and said: ‘O you all! Your hands have preceded you to the Fire. So if you were to repent, and Allah azwj Knows from you the sincerity of the intention, He azwj would Trun towards you (with Mercy) and your hands would join you in the Paradise. And if you do not improve and do not stop from what you are upon, your hands would drag you into the Fire’.

Translation: HubeAli·Thaqalayn link·The Arabic above is the original.

A number of our companions, from Sahl Bin Ziyad, from Ali Bin Asbaat, (It has been narrated) from Ali son of Ja’far asws who said, ‘My brother asws Musa asws said: ‘I asws was standing next to the head of my asws father asws , when a messenger of Ziyad Bin Ubeydulla, the governor of Al-Medina came over. He said, ‘The commander is saying to you asws , ‘Arise to come over to me’. So he asws excused himself asws due to illness. So the messenger reiterated to him, so he said to him asws , ‘He has ordered that the shorter door be opened up for you, it would be nearer for your asws steps’. He asws said: ‘So my asws father asws arose and leaned upon me asws , and entered upon the governor, and there had gathered therein the jurists of Al-Medina, all of them, and there was a letter in front of him in which was a testimony upon a man from the people of the valley of Al-Qura, in which he mentioned the Prophet saww having been maligned (defamed) in it. So the governor said to him asws , ‘O Abu Abdullah asws ! Look in the letter’. He asws said: ‘(Not) until I asws look at what they said’. So he turned towards them, so he said, ‘What are you saying?’ They said, ‘We say he should be displined, and whipped, and reprimanded, and imprisoned’. So he asws said to them: ‘What is your view if he had mentioned a man from the companions of the Prophet saww with similar to what he has mentioned the Prophet saww by. What would have been the judgement regarding it?’ They said, ‘Similar to this’. He asws said: ‘Glory be to Allah azwj ! So there is not between the Prophet saww and a man from his saww companions, a difference?’. He (7 th Imam asws ) said: ‘So the governor said: ‘Leave them, O Abu Abdullah asws ! Had we intended them, we would not have sent a messenger to you asws ’. So Abu Abdullah asws said: ‘My asws father asws informed me asws that Rasool-Allah saww said: ‘The people are all equal in example. The one who hears anyone mentioning me saww (maliciously) so it is Obligatory upon him that he kills the one who insults me, and not raise it to the authorities, and it is Obligatory upon the authorities when it is raised to them that they should kill the one who maligns (slanders) me asws ’. So Ziyad Bin Ubeydullah said, ‘Bring out the man, so kill him, by the judgement of Abu Abdullah asws ’.

Translation: HubeAli·Thaqalayn link·The Arabic above is the original.