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bayhaqi:12248Abū ʿAbdullāh al-Ḥāfiẓ And ʾAbū Saʿīd b. Abū ʿAmr > Abū al-ʿAbbās > al-Aṣam > Yaḥyá b. Abū Ṭālib > Yazīd b. Hārūn > Hishām b. Ḥassān > Muḥammad b. Sīrīn > ʿAbīdah al-Salmānī

[Machine] Those who have insight and forbidding in what kills some of you, are the messengers of Allah among you. So come to them and they said, "Indeed, Allah commands you to slaughter a cow." They said, "Do you take us in ridicule?" He said, "I seek refuge in Allah from being among the ignorant." [Al-Baqarah 67] He said, "If they had not been so stubborn, a cow would have sufficed them, but they made it difficult for themselves. So it became difficult for them until they came to the cow that they were commanded to slaughter. And they found it belonging to a man who had no other cow. They said, "By Allah, we will not slaughter it until its owner comes back, if he ever comes." So they took it upon themselves, filling it with gold. And they slaughtered it. And when they struck him with a part of it, he stood up and they asked, "Who killed you?" He said, "This is the doing of my nephew." Then he turned back dead, without leaving a will behind him."  

البيهقي:١٢٢٤٨أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو عَبْدِ اللهِ الْحَافِظُ وَأَبُو سَعِيدِ بْنُ أَبِي عَمْرٍو قَالَا ثنا أَبُو الْعَبَّاسِ هُوَ الْأَصَمُّ ثنا يَحْيَى بْنُ أَبِي طَالِبٍ ثنا يَزِيدُ بْنُ هَارُونَ أنا هِشَامُ بْنُ حَسَّانَ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ سِيرِينَ عَنْ عَبِيدَةَ السَّلْمَانِيِّ قَالَ كَانَ فِي بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ عَقِيمٌ لَا يُولَدُ لَهُ وَكَانَ لَهُ مَالٌ كَثِيرٌ وَكَانَ ابْنُ أَخِيهِ وَارِثَهُ فَقَتَلَهُ ثُمَّ احْتَمَلَهُ لَيْلًا حَتَّى أَتَى بِهِ حَيًّا آخَرِينَ فَوَضَعَهُ عَلَى بَابِ رَجُلٍ مِنْهُمْ ثُمَّ أَصْبَحَ يَدَّعِيهِ عَلَيْهِمْ حَتَّى تَسَلَّحُوا وَرَكِبَ بَعْضُهُمْ إِلَى بَعْضٍ فَقَالَ

ذَوُو الرَّأْيِ وَالنَّهْيِ عَلَى مَا يَقْتُلُ بَعْضُكُمْ بَعْضًا وَهَذَا رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ فِيكُمْ فَأَتَوْهُ فَقَالَ {إِنَّ اللهَ يَأْمُرُكُمْ أَنْ تَذْبَحُوا بَقَرَةً قَالُوا أَتَتَّخِذُنَا هُزُوًا قَالَ أَعُوذُ بِاللهِ أَنْ أَكُونَ مِنَ الْجَاهِلِينَ} [البقرة 67] قَالَ فَلَوْ لَمْ يَعْتَرِضُوا الْبَقَرَ لَأَجْزَأَتْ عَنْهُمْ أَدْنَى بَقَرَةٍ وَلَكِنَّهُمْ شَدَّدُوا فَشُدِّدَ عَلَيْهِمْ حَتَّى انْتَهَوْا إِلَى الْبَقَرَةِ الَّتِي أُمِرُوا بِذَبْحِهَا فَوَجَدُوهَا عِنْدَ رَجُلٍ لَيْسَ لَهُ بَقَرَةٌ غَيْرَهَا فَقَالَ وَاللهِ لَا أَنْقُصُهَا مِنْ مِلْءِ جِلْدِهَا ذَهَبًا فَأَخَذُوهَا بِمِلْءِ جِلْدِهَا ذَهَبًا فَذَبَحُوهَا فَضَرَبُوهُ بِبَعْضِهَا فَقَامَ فَقَالُوا مَنْ قَتَلَكَ؟ قَالَ هَذَا لِابْنِ أَخِيهِ ثُمَّ مَالَ مَيِّتًا فَلَمْ يُعْطَ ابْنُ أَخِيهِ مِنْ مَالِهِ شَيْئًا وَلَمْ يُوَرَّثْ قَاتِلٌ بَعْدَهُ