Jami' at-Tirmidhi
Jami` at-Tirmidhi 1414
حَدَّثَنَا قُتَيْبَةُ، حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو عَوَانَةَ، عَنْ قَتَادَةَ، عَنِ الْحَسَنِ، عَنْ سَمُرَةَ، قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم " مَنْ قَتَلَ عَبْدَهُ قَتَلْنَاهُ وَمَنْ جَدَعَ عَبْدَهُ جَدَعْنَاهُ " . قَالَ أَبُو عِيسَى هَذَا حَدِيثٌ حَسَنٌ غَرِيبٌ وَقَدْ ذَهَبَ بَعْضُ أَهْلِ الْعِلْمِ مِنَ التَّابِعِينَ مِنْهُمْ إِبْرَاهِيمُ النَّخَعِيُّ إِلَى هَذَا وَقَالَ بَعْضُ أَهْلِ الْعِلْمِ مِنْهُمُ الْحَسَنُ الْبَصْرِيُّ وَعَطَاءُ بْنُ أَبِي رَبَاحٍ لَيْسَ بَيْنَ الْحُرِّ وَالْعَبْدِ قِصَاصٌ فِي النَّفْسِ وَلاَ فِيمَا دُونَ النَّفْسِ . وَهُوَ قَوْلُ أَحْمَدَ وَإِسْحَاقَ . وَقَالَ بَعْضُهُمْ إِذَا قَتَلَ عَبْدَهُ لاَ يُقْتَلُ بِهِ وَإِذَا قَتَلَ عَبْدَ غَيْرِهِ قُتِلَ بِهِ . وَهُوَ قَوْلُ سُفْيَانَ الثَّوْرِيِّ وَأَهْلِ الْكُوفَةِ .
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The Messenger of Allah said: ‘Whoever kills his slave, We will kill him; and whoever mutilates his slave, We will mutilate him.’ This report is ḥasan gharīb. Some Successor scholars, including Ibrāhīm al-Nakhaʿī, held this view. Al-Ḥasan al-Baṣrī and ʿAṭāʾ ibn Abī Rabāḥ held that there is no retaliation between a free person and a slave, either for a life or lesser injuries; this was also Aḥmad and Isḥāq’s view. Others said a person is not executed for killing his own slave, but is executed for killing someone else’s slave; this was the view of Sufyān al-Thawrī and the scholars of Kūfah.