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Hadith 264
Hadith #
264
Book
Man Lā Yaḥḍuruh al-Faqīh
Volume
4
Section
26
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Content
Chapter
Chapter on the Ruling Regarding a Man Who Kills Two or More Men, and a Group That Gathers to Kill a Man
Source
Shaykh Muḥammad b. ʿAlī al-Ṣaduq
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Hadith.5234 - Imam Ali ibn Abi Talib (as) ruled in the case of four people who were looking into a lion's pit. One of them fell in and grabbed onto the second, the second grabbed onto the third, and the third grabbed onto the fourth until they all pulled each other down onto the lion. Imam (as) ruled that the first was considered the prey of the lion, and his family was required to pay one-third of the blood money (diyyah) to the family of the second. The family of the second was required to pay two-thirds of the diyyah to the family of the third. The family of the third was required to pay the full diyyah to the family of the fourth.
5234 - : "وَ قَضَى عَلِيٌّ عَلَيْهِ اَلسَّلاَمُ فِي أَرْبَعَةِ نَفَرٍ اِطَّلَعُوا فِي زُبْيَةِ اَلْأَسَدِ فَخَرَّ أَحَدُهُمْ فَاسْتَمْسَكَ بِالثَّانِي وَ اِسْتَمْسَكَ اَلثَّانِي بِالثَّالِثِ وَ اِسْتَمْسَكَ اَلثَّالِثُ بِالرَّابِعِ حَتَّى أَسْقَطَ بَعْضُهُمْ بَعْضاً عَلَى اَلْأَسَدِ فَقَضَى بِالْأَوَّلِ "أَنَّهُ فَرِيسَةُ اَلْأَسَدِ" وَ غَرَّمَ أَهْلَهُ ثُلُثَ اَلدِّيَةِ لِأَهْلِ اَلثَّانِي وَ غَرَّمَ أَهْلَ اَلثَّانِي لِأَهْلِ اَلثَّالِثِ ثُلُثَيِ اَلدِّيَةِ وَ غَرَّمَ أَهْلَ اَلثَّالِثِ لِأَهْلِ اَلرَّابِعِ اَلدِّيَةَ كَامِلَةً".
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