Man Lā Yaḥḍuruh al-Faqīh

Hadith 298
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5268 - وَ رَوَى عَلِيُّ بْنُ رِئَابٍ عَنِ اَلْحَلَبِيِّ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اَللَّهِ عَلَيْهِ اَلسَّلاَمُ قَالَ: "إِذَا قَتَلَ اَلْحُرُّ اَلْعَبْدَ غُرِّمَ قِيمَتَهُ وَ أُدِّبَ" قِيلَ لَهُ فَإِنْ كَانَتْ قِيمَتُهُ عِشْرِينَ أَلْفاً قَالَ "لاَ يُجَاوَزُ بِقِيمَةِ عَبْدٍ عَنْ دِيَةِ حُرٍّ".
Hadith.5268 - Abu Abdullah Imam Jafar ibn Muhammad Al-Sadiq (as) said: "If a free man kills a slave, he must pay the slave's value and be disciplined." It was asked: "What if the value of the slave is twenty thousand?" Imam (as) replied: "The value of a slave cannot exceed the blood money (diyyah) of a free person."
Source: Shaykh Muḥammad b. ʿAlī al-Ṣaduq

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