19. My father said: it was narrated to me by Sa’d b. Abdillah who raised it to Hisham b. Salim who said:

The narrator asked Imam Ja’far Sadiq about one who imprecates Ali . Imam replied, “I swear by Allah that it is permissible to kill him however doing so should not become a cause of death of an innocent human.” The narrator asked, “How can it become a cause of the death of an innocent?” Imam replied, “The death of that infidel should not be retaliated by the death of a believer.”