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3636. Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad bin ʿAlī narrated from Samurah bin Jundab, that he had some palm trees in the grove of an Anṣārī man. He said: "The man had his family with him, and Samurah used to enter the grove to go to his palm trees, and that caused annoyance and hardship to him (the Anṣārī man). He asked him to sell (the trees), and he refused. He asked him to take some other trees in exchange, and he refused. So he went to the Prophet ﷺ and told him about that, and the Prophet ﷺ asked him to sell it, but he refused; he asked him to accept some other trees in exchange, but he refused. He said: 'Give it to him and you will have such and such,' something with which he tried to encourage him, but he refused. He said: 'You deliberately want to cause harm to others.' The Messenger of Allāh ﷺ said to the Anṣārī: 'Go and uproot his palm trees.'" (Daʿif)
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A judge has the authority to take severe action against the oppressor, to save someone from harm, in such genuine circumstances as detailed in the narration.
