Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 30881 — What protects blood and spares a man

Ubaydullah bin Adi bin al-Khiyar said: Sayyiduna Miqdad (may Allah be pleased with him) asked: O Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him)! What is your view (peace and blessings be upon him): if I meet a man of the disbelievers, and he fights me and cuts off one of my hands with a blow of the sword, and then he seeks refuge from me behind a tree and says: I have embraced Islam for Allah, O Messenger of Allah! May I kill him after he has recited this statement? The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Do not kill him. I said: O Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him)! He cut off my hand, and then he recited this statement after cutting it off; may I then kill him? He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Do not kill him. And if you kill him, then he will be in your position, as you were before you killed him, and you will be in his position, as he was before he said the statement that he recited.