Sahih Muslim 1680a

Translation

While I was sitting in the company of Allah's Apostle ﷺ, a person came there dragging another one with the help of a strap and said: Messenger of Allah, this man has killed my brother. Messenger of Allah ﷺ said to him: Did you kill him? And the other man said: (In case he did not make a confession of this, I shall brine, a witness against him). He (the murderer) said: Yes, I have killed him. He (the Holy Prophet) said: Why did you kill him? He said: I and he won striking down the leaves of a tree and he abused me and enraged me, and to I struck his head with an axe and killed him, whereupon Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: Have you anything with you to pay blood-wit on your behalf? He said: I do not possess any property but this robe of mine and this axe of mine. He (the Holy, Prophet) said: Do you think your people will pay ransom for you? He said: I am more insignificant among my people than this (that I would not be able to get this benefit from my tribe). He (the Holy Prophet) threw the strap towards him (the claimant of the blood-wit) saying: Take away your man. The man took him away, and as he returned, Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: If he kills him, he will be like him. He returned and said: Messenger of Allah, it has reached me that you have said that" If he killed him, he would be like him." I caught hold of him according to your command, whereupon Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: Don't you like that he should take upon him (the burden) of your sin and the sin of your companion (your brother)? He said: Allah's Apostle, why not? The Messenger of Allah (may peace be. upon him) said: If it is so, then let it be. He threw away the strap (around the offender) and set him free.

Notes

• قَالَ فَرَمَى بِنِسْعَتِهِ وَخَلَّى سَبِيلَهُ

  machine translationHe said: So he threw down his rope (nisʿah) and let him go. Report a problem

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Sunan an-Nasa'i 4724Sunan an-Nasa'i 4730Sunan an-Nasa'i 5415al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 19497al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 5942al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 6919

Narrators

1. 1
   Wāʾil b. Ḥujr b. Saʿd al-Ḥaḍramī

   Eminent Companion (ṣaḥābī jalīl)d. 44 AH
   وَائِلُ بْنُ حُجْرِ بْنِ سَعْدٍ الْحَضْرَمِيُّصحابي جليل
   حدثه
2. 2
   ʿAlqamah b. Wāʾil

   Truthful (ṣadūq), except that he did not hear from his fatherd. between 91 and 100 AH
   عَلْقَمَةَ بْنَ وَائِلٍصدوق إلا أنه لم يسمع من أبيه
   حدثه
3. 3
   Simāk b. Ḥarb al-Bakrī

   Truthful (ṣadūq); his narrations from ʿIkrimah in particular are inconsistent (muḍṭarib); he changed (taghayyara) towards the end of his life, and at times he would accept prompting (yulaqqan).d. 123 AH
   سِمَاكِ بْنِ حَرْبٍصدوق , وروايته عن عكرمة خاصة مضطربة , وقد تغير بأخرة ، فكان ربما يلقن
   عن
4. 4
   Ḥātim b. Abī Ṣaghīrah

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. between 141 AH and 150 AH
   أَبُو يُونُسَثقة
   حدثنا
5. 5
   Abī

   trustworthy (thiqah), meticulous (mutqin)d. 195 AH, or 196 AH
   أَبِيثقة متقن
   حدثنا
6. 6
   ʿUbayd Allāh b. Muʿādh

   trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 237 AH or 238 AH; also said: 233 AH
   عُبَيْدُ اللهِ بْنُ مُعَاذٍ الْعَنْبَرِيُّثقة حافظ
   حدثنا
7. 7
   Muslim

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), an imam, an author of compilations, knowledgeable in jurisprudence (fiqh)d. Muḥammad b. Yaʿqūb said: 261 AH, Makkī b. ʿAbdān said: 259 AH
   مُسْلِمٌثقة حافظ ، إمام ، مصنف ، عالم بالفقه

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