He said to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, "Tell me, if I meet a man from the disbelievers and we fight, and he strikes one of my hands with the sword and cuts it off, then takes refuge from me behind a tree and says, 'I have submitted to Allah,' should I kill him, Messenger of Allah, after he has said that?"The Messenger of Allah ﷺ replied, "Do not kill him."He said, "Messenger of Allah, but he cut off one of my hands, and only said that after cutting it off!"The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "Do not kill him. If you kill him, he is in the position you were in before you killed him, and you are in the position he was in before he spoke the words he said."
- أنه قال لرسول الله ﷺ: أرأيت إن لقيت رجلا من الكفار فاقتتلنا، فضرب إحدى يدي بالسيف فقطعها، ثم لاذ مني بشجرة فقال: أسلمت الله، أأقتله يا رسول الله بعد أن قالها؟ فقال رسول الله ﷺ: لا تقتله فقال يا رسول الله، إنه قطع إحدى يدي، ثم قال ذلك بعد ما قطعها؟ فقال رسول الله ﷺ: لا تقتله، فإن قتلته فإنه بمنزلتك قبل أن تقتله، وإنك بمنزلته قبل أن يقول كلمته التي قال.
Bukhari related it in the Book of Military Expeditions (4019) and in the Book of Blood Money (6865), and Muslim in the Book of Faith (95), from the hadith of Ibn Shihab Zuhri, from Ata bin Yazid, from Ubaydullah bin Adi bin Khiyar, from Miqdad bin Amr, and he related it.It has also come from Ibn Abbas, who said, the Prophet ﷺ said to Miqdad, "If a believing man conceals his faith among a disbelieving people, then shows his faith openly, and you kill him, then you yourself were in the same position, concealing your faith in Makkah before." Bukhari mentioned this in the Book of Blood Money (6866) as a mualaq report, saying, Habib bin Abu Amra said, from Saeed, from Ibn Abbas, and he related it. It has been related with a connected chain, but the connection is not sahih.