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Muwatta Malik 1594

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وَحَدَّثَنِي يَحْيَى، عَنْ مَالِكٍ، عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ سَعْدِ بْنِ زُرَارَةَ، أَنَّهُ بَلَغَهُ أَنَّ حَفْصَةَ، زَوْجَ النَّبِيِّ صلى الله عليه وسلم قَتَلَتْ جَارِيَةً لَهَا سَحَرَتْهَا وَقَدْ كَانَتْ دَبَّرَتْهَا فَأَمَرَتْ بِهَا فَقُتِلَتْ ‏.‏ قَالَ مَالِكٌ السَّاحِرُ الَّذِي يَعْمَلُ السِّحْرَ وَلَمْ يَعْمَلْ ذَلِكَ لَهُ غَيْرُهُ هُوَ مَثَلُ الَّذِي قَالَ اللَّهُ تَبَارَكَ وَتَعَالَى فِي كِتَابِهِ ‏{‏وَلَقَدْ عَلِمُوا لَمَنِ اشْتَرَاهُ مَا لَهُ فِي الآخِرَةِ مِنْ خَلاَقٍ‏}‏ فَأَرَى أَنْ يُقْتَلَ ذَلِكَ إِذَا عَمِلَ ذَلِكَ هُوَ نَفْسُهُ ‏.‏

Yahya related to me from Malik from Muhammad ibn Abd ar-Rahman ibn Sad ibn Zurara that he had heard that Hafsa, the wife of the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, killed one of her slave-girls who had used sorcery against her. She was a mudabbara. Hafsa gave the order, and she was killed.

Malik said, "The sorcerer is the one who uses sorcery for himself and no one else uses that for him. It is like the one about whom Allah, the Blessed, the Exalted, said in His Book, 'They know the one who devotes himself to it will have no share in the Next World.' (Sura 2 ayat 102) I think that that person is killed if he does that himself."

Reported by Malik (No. 1594).

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Abu al-Walid al-Baji — Al-Muntaqa

( ش ) : قَوْلُهُ أَنَّ حَفْصَةَ زَوْجَ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّم قَتَلَتْ جَارِيَةً لَهَا سَحَرَتْهَا ظَاهِرُهُ مِنْ جِهَةِ اللَّفْظِ أَنَّهَا اخْتَصَّتْ بِقَتْلِهَا إمَّا بِأَنْ تَكُونَ بَاشَرَتْ ذَلِكَ أَوْ أَمَرَتْ بِهِ مَنْ أَطَاعَهَا , وَقَدْ رُوِيَ عَنْ مَالِكٍ أَنَّهُ قَالَ وَقَدْ أَمَرَتْ حَفْصَةُ فِي جَارِيَةٍ لَهَا سَحَرَتْهَا أَنْ تُقْتَلَ , وَيَحْتَمِلُ أَنْ يُرِيدَ بِذَلِكَ أَنَّهَا رَفَعَتْ أَمْرَهَا إِلَى مَنْ لَهُ النَّظَرُ فِي ذَلِكَ مِنْ أَمِيرٍ أَوْ غَيْرِهِ , وَأَثْبَتَتْ عِنْدَهُ مَا أَوْجَبَ ذَلِكَ فَنُسِبَ الْقَتْلُ إلَيْهَا لَمَّا كَانَتْ سَبَبَهُ , وَيَحْتَمِلُ أَنْ يَكُونَ مَنْ ثَبَتَ عِنْدَهُ مِنْ الْأُمَرَاءِ بَعْدَ أَنْ حَكَمَ بِالْقَتْلِ , وَمُ…

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