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Umdat al-Ahkam (al-Maqdisi) 343عمدة الأحكام 343
عن عبد الله بن مسعود - رضي الله عنه - قال: قال رسول الله - صلى الله عليه وسلم - «لا يحل دم امرئ مسلم يشهد أن لا إله إلا الله وأني رسول الله إلا بإحدى ثلاث: الثيب الزاني، والنفس بالنفس، والتارك لدينه المفارق للجماعة». الثيب الزاني: المتزوج الزاني.
'Abdullah (b. Mas'ud) reported Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying: It is not permissible to take the life of a Muslim who bears testimony (to the fact that there is no god but Allah, and I am the Messenger of Allah, but in one of the three cases: the married adulterer, a life for life, and the deserter of his Din (Islam), abandoning the community.
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Its text is in Sahih al-Bukhari and Sahih Muslim
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عبد الله بن مسعود
`Abdullah