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as is established from him (1) in the Sahih, where he said: “What destroyed those before you was that whenever a person of noble standing among them (2) stole, they let him go, but whenever a weak person among them stole, they enforced the prescribed punishment against him. By Allah, if Fātimah, the daughter of Muhammad, were to steal, I would cut off her hand.” (3)

He thus declared (4) that even the member of his family dearest to him, were that person to commit an offense warranting a prescribed punishment, would have that punishment enforced. If a Hāshimite who had consummated a valid marriage committed adultery, he would be stoned to death by agreement of the Muslim scholars. If he deliberately killed someone in sheer aggression, it would be permissible to put him to death in retaliation, even if the victim were an Abyssinian, a Byzantine, a Turk, or a Daylamite.

For the Prophet—may Allah bless him and grant him peace—said:

“The blood of all Muslims is equal.” (5)

The blood of Hāshimites and non-Hāshimites is therefore of equal value when they are free Muslims, by the consensus of the Ummah. There is no distinction between shedding the blood of a Hāshimite and that of a non-Hāshimite when it is legally warranted. How, then—

(1) *ʿAnhu* (“from him”) is omitted from MSS A and B. (2) MSS M and S read: *minhum* (“among them”). (3) This hadith appeared in abridged form earlier in this volume, p. 534. (4) MSS A and B read: *dhakara* (“stated”). (5) This is part of a hadith reported from ʿAlī ibn Abī Tālib, ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbbās, ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAmr ibn al-ʿĀs, and Maʿqil ibn Yasār, with variations in wording. See *Sunan Abī Dāwūd*, 3/107 (Book of Jihad, chapter on a detachment sharing its spoils with the main army); *Sunan Ibn Mājah*, 2/895 (Book of Blood Money, chapter “The Blood of Muslims Is of Equal Value”); and *al-Musnad*, al-Maʿārif ed., 2/199, 212, 213. Al-Albānī graded the hadith authentic in *Irwāʾ al-Ghalīl fī Takhrīj Ahādīth Manār al-Sabīl*, 7/265, no. 2207, al-Maktab al-Islāmī, Beirut, 1399/1979; see also his discussion thereof.

كَمَا ثَبَتَ عَنْهُ (١) فِي الصَّحِيحِ أَنَّهُ قَالَ: " «إِنَّمَا أَهْلَكَ مَنْ كَانَ قَبْلَكُمْ أَنَّهُمْ كَانُوا إِذَا سَرَقَ فِيهِمُ (٢) الشَّرِيفُ تَرَكُوهُ، وَإِذَا سَرَقَ فِيهِمُ الضَّعِيفُ أَقَامُوا عَلَيْهِ الْحَدَّ. وَايْمُ اللَّهِ لَوْ أَنَّ فَاطِمَةَ بِنْتَ مُحَمَّدٍ سَرَقَتْ لَقَطَعْتُ يَدَهَا» " (٣) . فَقَدْ أَخْبَرَ (٤) أَنَّ أَعَزَّ النَّاسِ عَلَيْهِ مِنْ أَهْلِهِ لَوْ أَتَى بِمَا يُوجِبُ الْحَدَّ لَأَقَامَهُ عَلَيْهِ، فَلَوْ زَنَى الْهَاشِمِيُّ وَهُوَ مُحْصَنٌ رُجِمَ حَتَّى يَمُوتَ بِاتِّفَاقِ عُلَمَاءِ الْمُسْلِمِينَ، وَلَوْ قَتَلَ نَفْسًا عَمْدًا عُدْوَانًا مَحْضًا لَجَازَ قَتْلُهُ بِهِ، وَإِنْ كَانَ الْمَقْتُولُ مِنَ الْحَبَشَةِ أَوِ الرُّومِ أَوِ التُّرْكِ أَوِ الدَّيْلَمِ. فَإِنَّ النَّبِيَّ - صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ - قَالَ: " «الْمُسْلِمُونَ تَتَكَافَأُ دِمَاؤُهُمْ» " (٥) فَدِمَاءُ الْهَاشِمِيِّينَ وَغَيْرِ الْهَاشِمِيِّينَ سَوَاءٌ إِذَا كَانُوا أَحْرَارًا مُسْلِمِينَ بِاتِّفَاقِ الْأُمَّةِ، فَلَا فَرْقَ بَيْنَ إِرَاقَةِ دَمِ الْهَاشِمِيِّ وَغَيْرِ الْهَاشِمِيِّ إِذَا كَانَ بِحَقٍّ، فَكَيْفَ

(١) عَنْهُ: سَاقِطَةٌ مِنْ (أ) ، (ب) . (٢) م، ص: مِنْهُمْ. (٣) سَبَقَ هَذَا الْحَدِيثُ مُخْتَصَرًا فِي هَذَا الْجُزْءِ. ص ٥٣٤. (٤) أ، ب: ذَكَرَ. (٥) هَذَا جُزْءٌ مِنْ حَدِيثٍ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ أَبِي طَالِبٍ وَعَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَبَّاسٍ وَعَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَمْرِو بْنِ الْعَاصِ وَمَعْقِلِ بْنِ يَسَارٍ مَعَ اخْتِلَافٍ فِي اللَّفْظِ فِي: سُنَنِ أَبِي دَاوُدَ ٣/١٠٧ (كِتَابُ الْجِهَادِ، بَابٌ فِي السَّرِيَّةِ تَرِدُ عَلَى أَهْلِ الْعَسْكَرِ) ; سُنَنِ ابْنِ مَاجَهْ ٢/٨٩٥ " (كِتَابُ الدِّيَاتِ، بَابُ الْمُسْلِمُونَ تَتَكَافَأُ دِمَاؤُهُمْ) ; الْمُسْنَدِ (ط. الْمَعَارِفِ) ٢/١٩٩، ٢١٢، ٢١٣، وَصَحَّحَهُ الْأَلْبَانِيُّ الْحَدِيثُ فِي " إِرْوَاءِ الْغَلِيلِ فِي تَخْرِيجِ أَحَادِيثِ مَنَارِ السَّبِيلِ " ٧/٢٦٥ (٢٢٠٧) ، ط. الْمَكْتَبِ الْإِسْلَامِيِّ، بَيْرُوتَ ١٣٩٩ ١٩٧٩ (وَانْظُرْ كَلَامَهُ عَلَيْهِ) .