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Testimony of a Blind and Speechless

alkafi-14517Vol. 7, p. 400

سَأَلْتُ أَبَا عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع عَنْ شَهَادَةِ الْأَصَمِّ فِي الْقَتْلِ قَالَ يُؤْخَذُ بِأَوَّلِ قَوْلِهِ وَ لَا يُؤْخَذُ بِالثَّانِي‌[2].

“I once asked abu ‘Abd Allah (a.s.), about the testimony of a speechless man in the case of murder. He (the Imam) said, ‘His first words are admissible and his second words are not admissible.”’