الكافي- ط الاسلامية, volume 7, page 375

Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad Bin Isa, and Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, both together, from Ibn Mahboub, from Ali Bin Al Hassan Bin Rabaat, from Ibn Muskan, from Abu Makhlad, (It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah asws , having said, ‘I asws was in the presence of Dawood Bin Ali, so they came with a man who had killed a man. So Dawood Bin Ali said to him, ‘What are you saying, having killed this man?’ He said, ‘Yes, I did kill him’. So Dawood said to him, ‘And why did you kill him?’ So he said, ‘He used to enter into my house without my permission. So I made claims against him to the rules who were before you, so they instructed me that if he were to enter without my permission so I should kill him. So I killed him’. He asws said: ‘So Dawood turned towards me, so he said, ‘O Abu Abdullah asws ! What are you asws saying regarding this?’ So I asws said to him: ‘I asws view that he has confessed with the killing of a Muslim man, so kill him’. So he ordered for it, so he was killed. Then Abu Abdullah asws said: ‘There were people from the companions of Rasool-Allah azwj , and among when was Sa’ad Bin Ubada. So they said, ‘O Sa’ad! What are you saying, if you were to go to your house, so you find in it a man upon the belly of your wife, what would you do with him?’ So Sa’ad said, ‘By Allah azwj ! I would strike his neck with the sword’. He asws said: ‘So Rasool-Allah saww came out, and they were in this speech, so he saww said: ‘O Sa’ad! Who is this one whom you are speaking that, ‘I would strike his neck with the sword?’ So he informed him saww with that which they had said, and what Sa’ad had said. So Rasool-Allah saww said during that: ‘O Sa’ad! So where are the four witnesses whom Allah azwj Mighty and Majestic Speaks of?’ So Sa’ad said, ‘O Rasool-Allah saww ! After my having seen with my own eyes, and Allah azwj Knows that he has done it?’ So Rasool-Allah saww said: ‘Yes, by Allah azwj , O Sa’ad! After your eyes have seen, and Allah azwj Mighty and Majestic Knows. Allah azwj Mighty and Majestic has Made a Limit for everything, and Made for everyone who exceeds the Limits of Allah azwj a legal penalty ( Hadd ), and Made whatever was less than the four witnesses as a veil upon the Muslims’.

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

Ali Bin Ibrahim, form his father, from Ibn Mahboub, from a man from our companions, from Abu Al Sabbah Al Kinany who said, ‘I said to Abu Abdullah asws that we have a neighbour from Hamdan called Al-Ja’d Bin Abdullah, and he was sitting with us. So we mentioned Ali asws Amir Al-Momineen asws , and his asws merits, but he falls out with us with regards to it (quarrels with us). Do you asws permit me with regards to (killing) him?’ So he asws said to me: ‘O Abu Al-Sabbah! Will you do it?’ So I said, ‘Yes, by Allah azwj ! If you asws were to permit me with regards to it, I would ambush him. So when the time comes, I would storm upon him with my sword and strike him until I kill him’. He asws said: ‘O Abu Al Sabbah, this is the assassination, and Rasool-Allah saww has forbidden from the assassination. O Abu Al-Sabbah! Al-Islam retaliates the assassination. But, leave him, so it would be sufficed by other than you’. Abu Al-Sabbah said, ‘So when I returned from Al-Medina to Al-Kufa, there had not elapsed except for eighteen days, when I went out to the Masjid, so I Prayed Al-Fajr, then optional, so there was a man to stirred me with his left, so he said, ‘O Abu Al-Sabbah! The good news’. So I said, ‘May Allah azwj Give you good news with the goodness, so what is that’. So he said, ‘Al-Ja’d Bin Abdullah was sleeping last night in his house in al-Jabanah, so (they came) to wake him up was for the Prayer, but there he was all puffed up like the balloon and dead. So they went to carry him, but his flesh kept falling off from his bones. So they gathered him in a leather rug, and there was a black (snake) underneath him. So they buried him’.

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