حَدَّثَنَا عَلِيُّ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ حَدَّثَنَا وَکِيعٌ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو لَيْلَی عَنْ أَبِي عُکَّاشَةَ عَنْ رِفَاعَةَ قَالَ دَخَلْتُ عَلَی الْمُخْتَارِ فِي قَصْرِهِ فَقَالَ قَامَ جِبْرَائِيلُ مِنْ عِنْدِيَ السَّاعَةَ فَمَا مَنَعَنِي مِنْ ضَرْبِ عُنُقِهِ إِلَّا حَدِيثٌ سَمِعْتُهُ مِنْ سُلَيْمَانَ بْنِ صُرَدٍ عَنْ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّی اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ أَنَّهُ قَالَ إِذَا أَمِنَکَ الرَّجُلُ عَلَی دَمِهِ فَلَا تَقْتُلْهُ فَذَاکَ الَّذِي مَنَعَنِي مِنْهُ
ابن ماجہ · Hadith 2689
It was narrated that Rifa'ah said: “I entered upon Mukhtar in his palace and he said: ‘Jibril has just left me.' Nothing stopped me from striking his neck (i.e., killing him) but a Hadith that I heard from Sulaiman bin Surad, according to which the Prophet said: 'If a man trusts you with his life, then do not kill him.' That is what stopped me."
Translated by Dr. Muhammad Muhsin Khan · Reviewed by Islamic University of Madinah · Published March 2020