This hadeeth comes under the following chapter: JUSTIFICATION FOR KILLING THOSE GUILTY OF BREACH OF TRUST AND MAKING THE PEOPLE OF THE FORT SURRENDER ON THE ARBITRATION OF A JUST PERSON
Through the same chain of transmitters Shu'ba has narrated the same tradition in which he says that the Messenger of Allaah (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) said (to Sa'd): You have adjudged according to the command of God. And once he said: you have adjudged by the decision of a king.