Sunan Ibn Majah 2691

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Abū ʿUmayr, ʿĪsā ibn Muḥammad al-Naḥḥās, ʿĪsā ibn Yūnus, and al-Ḥusayn ibn Abī al-Sarī al-ʿAsqalānī said: Ḍamrah ibn Rabīʿah narrated to us, from Ibn Shawdhab, from Thābit al-Bunānī, from Anas ibn Mālik, who said: A man brought the killer of his relative to the Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him. The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said, “Pardon him.” He refused. He said, “Take the compensation for the injury.” He refused. He said: “Go and kill him, for then you will be like him.” The man caught up with the killer, and someone told him that the Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, had said, “Kill him, for then you will be like him.” So he released him. He was seen going home, dragging his strap. The narrator said, “It seems he had tied him up.” Abū ʿUmayr said in his version: Ibn Shawdhab said, from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Qāsim: After the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, no one may say that he should be killed because he would be like him. Ibn Mājah said: “This is the report of the people of al-Raml; it is found only with them.”