Commentary for Shabbat 144:2

אמר רבא מנא אמינא לה דתניא חומר שבת משאר מצות וחומר שאר מצות משבת חומר שבת משאר מצות שהשבת עשה שתים בהעלם אחד חייב על כל אחת ואחת מה שאין כן בשאר מצות וחומר שאר מצות משבת שבשאר מצות שגג בלא מתכוין חייב מה שאין כן בשבת:

Raba ruled: He is not culpable; Abaye maintained: He is culpable.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Throughout the Talmud Abaye's view is always quoted before Raba's. Hence it is suggested that either the order should be reversed here, or Rabbah (Abaye's teacher) should be read instead of Raba, v. Marginal Gloss. ');">³</span> Raba ruled, He is not culpable, since he had no intention of a prohibited cutting.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Whereas in order to be culpable he must have intended to do what he did, save that his offence was unintentional either because he did not know that it was the Sabbath or that that action is forbidden on the Sabbath. ');">⁴</span>

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