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Hadith 119
penalties
3262 - وَ رَوَى اَلسَّكُونِيُّ بِإِسْنَادِهِ أَنَّ أَمِيرَ اَلْمُؤْمِنِينَ عَلَيْهِ اَلسَّلاَمُ قَالَ : فِي رَجُلٍ أَمَرَ عَبْدَهُ أَنْ يَقْتُلَ رَجُلاً فَقَتَلَهُ قَالَ "هَلْ عَبْدُ اَلرَّجُلِ إِلاَّ كَسَوْطِهِ وَ سَيْفِهِ فَقُتِلَ اَلسَّيِّدُ وَ اُسْتُودِعَ اَلْعَبْدُ اَلسِّجْنَ ".
Hadith.3262 - Al-Sakuni narrated through his chain of transmission that Commander of the Faithful (as) said regarding a man who ordered his slave to kill another man, and the slave carried out the order: (Imam (as) said) "Is not the slave like his master's whip or sword?" Therefore, the master was executed, and the slave was imprisoned.
Source: Shaykh Muḥammad b. ʿAlī al-Ṣaduq