Volume 5, Book 59, Number 354:
Narrated ‘Ubaidullah bin ‘Adi bin Al-Khiyar:
That Al-Miqdad bin ‘Amr Al-Kindi, who was an ally of Bani Zuhra and one of those who fought
the battle of Badr together with Allah’s Apostle told him that he said to Allah’s Apostle, “Suppose I met
one of the infidels and we fought, and he struck one of my hands with his sword and cut it off and
then took refuge in a tree and said, “I surrender to Allah (i.e. I have become a Muslim),’ could I kill
him, O Allah’s Apostle, after he had said this?” Allah’s Apostle said, “You should not kill him.” Al-
Miqdad said, “O Allah’s Apostle! But he had cut off one of my two hands, and then he had uttered
those words?” Allah’s Apostle replied, “You should not kill him, for if you kill him, he would be in
your position where you had been before killing him, and you would be in his position where he had
been before uttering those words.”