Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah

Hazrat Auf narrates that I was present with Hazrat Abdur Rahman bin Azinah when he took retribution (qisas) from a man for someone by inflicting two minor wounds on his head, and then he stopped the person for whom the retribution was being taken, until he could see the person from whom the retribution was taken. The narrator says: Hazrat Ibn Sirin disliked this act of stopping.

Hazrat Ibn Jurayj states that Hazrat Ata said: There is also qisas (retaliation) in wounds, and the Imam does not have the authority to kill him or imprison him. Indeed, this is qisas, and Allah, the Lord of Honor, does not forget anything. If He had willed, He would have commanded imprisonment and killing.