28/4. Chapter:
Al-Lu'lu Wal-Marjan 1089 — The Book of Al-Qasama [The oath taken by fifty men (of the defendant) regarding a murder case when no evidence is available]
If anyone attacks the life of a person or his limb and the victim ward off the attack and in self-defence either the life of the assailant is lost or his limb broken, there will be no penalty on the victim.
Al-Lu'lu Wal-Marjan : 1089
Al-Lu'lu Wal-MarjanHadith Number 1089
حديث يَعْلَى بْنِ أُمَيَّةَ رضي الله عنها، قَالَ: غَزَوْتُ مَعَ النَبِيِّ ﷺ جَيْشَ الْعُسْرَةِ، فَكَانَ مِنْ أَوْثَقِ أَعْمَالِي فِي نَفْسِي، فَكَانَ لِي أَجِيرٌ، فَقَاتَلَ إِنْسَانًا، فَعَضَّ أَحَدُهُمَا إِصْبَعَ صَاحِبهِ، فَانْتَزَعَ إِصْبَعَهُ، فَأَنْدَرَ ثَنِيَّتَهُ فَسَقَطَتْ فَانْطَلَقَ إِلَى النَّبِىِّ ﷺ، فَأَهْدَرَ ثَنِيَّتَهُ، وَقَالَ: أَفَيَدَعُ إِصْبَعَهُ فِي فِيكَ تقْضَمُهَا قَالَ أَحْسِبُهُ قَالَ: كَمَا يَقْضَمُ الْفَحْلُ اخرجه البخاري في: ٣٧ كتاب الإجارة: ٥ باب الأجير في الغزو.
Ya‘la bin Umayya Narrated from:
I fought in Jaish-al-‘Usra (Ghazwa of Tabûk) along with the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم and in my opinion that was the best of my deeds. Then I had an employee, who quarrelled with someone and one of them bit and cut the other’s finger and caused his own tooth to fall out. He then went to the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم (with a complaint); but the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم rejected the plea and said to the complainant, “Did you expect him to let his finger in your mouth so that you might snap and cut it as does a stallion camel?” ( Sahîh Al-Bukhârî, Hadîth No. 466-A, Vol. 3)
