Jami' al-Saghir / Jam' al-Jawami' (al-Suyuti) 4-96b

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"From ʿAlī, who said: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ sent me to Yemen. We came upon a people who had dug a pit to trap a lion. While they were pushing one another around it, a man fell in and clung to another, then that man clung to another, until four of them were in it, and the lion mauled them. Then a man went for it with a spear and killed it, and all of them died of their wounds. The relatives of the first rose against the relatives of the second and drew their weapons to fight one another. ʿAlī came to them in the midst of that and said: Do you want to fight one another while the Messenger of Allah ﷺ is alive? I will judge between you with a judgement; if you accept it, then it is the judgement, and if not, some of you shall restrain others until you come to the Prophet ﷺ, and he will be the one to judge between you. Whoever transgresses after that has no right. Collect from the tribes of those who dug the well a quarter of the blood-money, a third of the blood-money, a half of the blood-money, and the full blood-money. The first gets the quarter, because those above him perished; the second gets a third of the blood-money; the third gets a half of the blood-money; and the fourth gets the full blood-money. They refused to accept, so they came to the Prophet ﷺ while he was at the Station of Ibrāhīm, and they related the matter to him. He said: I will judge between you, and he sat wrapping his arms around his knees. A man from the people said: ʿAlī has already judged between us, and they told him of it, and the Prophet ﷺ approved it. In another wording: The Prophet ﷺ said: The judgement is as ʿAlī judged.".....

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