Is it permissible to amputate a healthy hand in retaliation for an amputated hand?

Chapter on Retaliation (Qawad)

Al-Mughni

Book of Wounds

Book 47 · Issue 3 · Bab 2

Open in Qurani

Primary text

It is not permissible, under a single established narration, to amputate a healthy hand in retaliation for a previously amputated hand because this would amount to exchanging a sound limb for an already severed one.