Is it permissible to amputate a healthy hand in retaliation for an amputated hand?
Chapter on Retaliation (Qawad)
Al-Mughni
Book of Wounds
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.