Hadith 5760

وَعَنْ ابْنِ شِهَابٍ ، عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ الْمُسَيِّبِ : " أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَضَى فِي الْجَنِينِ ، يُقْتَلُ فِي بَطْنِ أُمِّهِ بِغُرَّةٍ عَبْدٍ أَوْ وَلِيدَةٍ ، فَقَالَ الَّذِي قُضِيَ عَلَيْهِ : كَيْفَ أَغْرَمُ مَا لَا أَكَلَ ، وَلَا شَرِبَ ، وَلَا نَطَقَ ، وَلَا اسْتَهَلَّ ، وَمِثْلُ ذَلِكَ يُطَلُّ ، فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ : إِنَّمَا هَذَا مِنْ إِخْوَانِ الْكُهَّانِ " .
Narrated Ibn Shihab: Sa`id bin Al-Musayyab said, "Allah's Apostle judged that in case of child killed in the womb of its mother, the offender should give the mother a slave or a female slave in recompense The offender said, How can I be fined for killing one who neither ate nor drank, neither spoke nor cried: a case like that should be denied ' On that Allah's Apostle said 'He is one of the brothers of the foretellers.
Hadith Reference Sahih Bukhari / The Book of Medicine / Hadith: 5760
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