مَنْ جُعِلَ قَاضِيًا بَيْنَ النَّاسِ، فَقَدْ ذُبِحَ بِغَيْرِ سِكِّينٍ
Translation: Whoever is appointed a judge between people has, as it were, been slaughtered without a knife: a striking image of the burden of this office.
Source: أحمد والترمذي
جُعِلَ قَاضِيًا means “was appointed a judge”; جُعِلَ is passive. بَيْنَ النَّاسِ means “between people,” and بِغَيْرِ سِكِّينٍ means “without a knife.”
The phrase فَقَدْ ذُبِحَ بِغَيْرِ سِكِّينٍ is striking figurative language. It is not an instruction to physically harm a judge; it stresses the grave accountability of making judgments that affect others.