Man’s Defending Himself Against the Thief

3. The narrator of the previous through his chain of narrators has said the following: “Once a man came to Amir al-Mu’minin عليه السلام, and said, ’O Amir al-Mu’minin, a thief entered in the house of my wife and stole her ornaments. Amir al-Mu’minin عليه السلام, said, ‘Had he (the thief) entered the house of the son of a clean woman he would not agree with less than overwhelming him (thief) by his sword.’”