English translation
4019. Narrated 'Ubaidullāh bin 'Adī bin Al-Khiyār that Al-Miqdād bin 'Amr Al-Kindī, who was an ally of Banī Zuhra, and one of those who fought the battle of Badr together with Allāh's Messenger ﷺ told him that he said to Allāh's Messenger ﷺ, “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 Allāh (i.e., I have become a Muslim),' could I kill him, O Allāh's Messenger, after he had said this?” Allāh's Messenger ﷺ said, “You should not kill him.” Al-Miqdād said, “O Allāh's Messenger! But he had cut off one of my two hands, and then he had uttered those words?" Allāh's Messenger ﷺ 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."