Blood money for the limbs and others

Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "When the nose is cut off completely, the full blood money (diyah) is due for it; for an eye, fifty camels are due; for a hand, fifty camels are due; for a leg (or foot), fifty are due; for a ja'ifah wound, one third of the blood money for a life is due; for a munaqqilah wound, fifteen are due; for a mudihah, five are due; for a tooth, five are due; and for each finger, ten each are due."
Al-Bazzar recorded it. Its chain contains a narrator, Muhammad bin Abi Layla, who had a poor memory; the remaining narrators of this report are thiqat (trustworthy).

Sayyiduna Ubadah bin al-Samit (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates: The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) ruled concerning the great, heavy (mughallazah) blood money that thirty hiqqah, thirty jadha'ah, twenty bint labun and twenty male ibn labun are to be paid.
Al-Tabarani recorded it. The narrator Ishaq bin Yahya did not hear from Sayyiduna Ubadah (may Allah be pleased with him).

Sayyiduna Ubadah (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates: He, that is, the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), ruled concerning the major, heavy (mughallazah) blood money that thirty bint labun, thirty hiqqah and forty khalifah (pregnant she-camels) are to be paid. And concerning the minor blood money, he ruled that thirty bint labun, thirty hiqqah, twenty bint makhad and twenty male ibn makhad are to be paid. After the passing of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), the price of camels rose and the value of dirhams fell, so Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) set the camels of the blood money as equal to six thousand dirhams, reckoning one uqiyah for each camel. Then the price of camels rose and the value of silver fell, so Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) added two thousand dirhams, which comes to two uqiyah for each camel. Then the price of camels rose further and the value of the dirham fell, so Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) completed it at twelve thousand, in which the price of each camel comes to three uqiyah. The narrator said: In the sacred month, one third of the blood money is added, and in the sacred city (al-balad al-haram) a further third is added. The narrator said: So the blood money in the two Sanctuaries comes to a full twenty thousand. The narrator said: It used to be said that from the people of the desert their livestock will be taken, and they will not be obliged to pay in silver or gold (dirhams or dinars), and from every people payment will be taken out of their own particular wealth, in accordance with justice.
Abdullah recorded it in his Ziyadat (the additional narrations he recorded beyond those of his father), within a long hadith that has already passed in the Book of Rulings (Kitab al-Ahkam). The narrator Ishaq bin Yahya did not live in the time of Sayyiduna Ubadah (may Allah be pleased with him).

Sayyiduna al-Sa'ib bin Yazid (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates: In the blessed time of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), the blood money was one hundred camels of four different ages: twenty-five hiqqah, twenty-five jadha'ah, twenty-five bint makhad and twenty-five bint labun. Then came the time of Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him), and the realm expanded. Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "Not everyone has camels." So the price of one camel was fixed at one uqiyah, and on that basis the blood money came to four thousand dirhams. Then the price of camels rose, and Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "Assess the price of a camel, and make it one and a half uqiyah." On that basis the amount became six thousand dirhams. Then the price of camels rose again, and Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "Assess the price of the camels." Their price was set at three uqiyah, and the blood money became twelve thousand dirhams. So twelve thousand was made due from the people of silver; one hundred camels from the people of camels; one thousand dinars from those who pay in gold; two hundred garments (hullah) from those who deal in cloth, each garment worth five dinars; one thousand sheep from the people of sheep; two thousand goats from the people of goats; and two hundred cows from the people of cattle.
Al-Tabarani recorded it. Its chain contains a narrator, Abu Ma'shar Najih, and a narrator, Salih bin Abi al-Akhdar, and both of them are da'if (weak).

Sayyidah Umm Sulayman al-Shifa' (may Allah be pleased with her) narrates: The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) appointed Sayyiduna Abu Jahm bin Hudhayfah (may Allah be pleased with him) as the official over the spoils of war. He struck a man with his bow and inflicted a munaqqilah wound on him, so the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) made fifteen shares (camels) due for it.
Al-Tabarani recorded it in al-Mu'jam al-Kabir and al-Mu'jam al-Awsat. Its chain contains a narrator, Khalid bin Ilyas, who is matruk (abandoned).

Sayyiduna Zayd bin Thabit (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates: The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) gave only three rulings, concerning the wound called ammah, the wound called munaqqilah and the wound called mudihah: for an ammah wound, thirty-three camels are due; for a munaqqilah, fifteen camels are due; and for a mudihah, five are due. And the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) ruled concerning the eye of an animal that one quarter of the animal's price must be paid.
Al-Tabarani recorded it. Its chain contains a narrator, Abu Umayyah bin Ya'la, who is da'if (weak).

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) narrates: The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) ruled that ten camels each are due for the fingers, and fifty camels for a hand.
(Allamah al-Haythami says:) I say: In the "Sahih", only the ruling about the fingers is narrated from this Companion.
Al-Tabarani recorded it from his teacher al-Miqdam bin Dawud, who is da'if (weak).

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) says: Both eyes are of equal standing, all the fingers are of equal standing, all the teeth are of equal standing, both hands are of equal standing, and both feet are of equal standing.
Al-Tabarani recorded it, and its narrators are the narrators of the Sahih, except that al-Sha'bi did not hear from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him).

Alqamah bin Qays narrates: Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) says: For every (organ of the body) that comes as a pair, the full blood money is due for the two of them, and for each single one of them the full blood money is due.
Al-Tabarani recorded it, and its narrators are the narrators of the Sahih.

Asim bin Kulayb narrates this statement of his father: I met Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) during the Hajj season. I called out to him from behind the tent: "Listen! I am so-and-so son of so-and-so al-Jarmi, and our sister's son is held captive by so-and-so. We have offered him the obligatory payment fixed by the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him)." The narrator said: Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) lifted the corner of the tent and said: "Do you know the person concerned?" I replied: "Yes, he is over there." He said: "Then both of you bring him, so that we may carry out the ruling of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him)." The narrator said: We used to say among ourselves that that payment was four camels.
Abu Ya'la recorded it, and its narrators are thiqat (trustworthy).

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) says: For quasi-deliberate killing (shibh al-amd), twenty-five hiqqah, twenty-five jadha'ah, twenty-five bint makhad and twenty-five bint labun are to be paid.
Al-Tabarani recorded it. The narrator Ibrahim did not hear from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him); the narrators of this report are the narrators of the Sahih.

Ibrahim al-Nakha'i narrates that Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "For accidental killing, twenty hiqqah, twenty jadha'ah, twenty bint makhad, twenty ibn makhad and twenty bint labun are to be paid."
Al-Tabarani recorded it, and its narrators are the narrators of the Sahih; however, the narrator Ibrahim did not live in the time of Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him).

Mujahid narrates: Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) says: "A man and a woman are counted as equal in payments up to five camels." Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) says: In every respect (a woman) is counted as half (of a man).
Al-Tabarani recorded it, and its narrators are the narrators of the Sahih, except that the narrator Mujahid did not live in the time of Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him).

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) narrates this saying of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him): "The blood money of a dhimmi is (equal to) the blood money of a Muslim."
Al-Tabarani recorded it in al-Mu'jam al-Awsat. Its chain contains a narrator, Abu Kurz, who is da'if (weak), and this is the most munkar (denounced) hadith he narrated.

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) narrates that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The blood money of a dhimmi is half the blood money of a Muslim."
Al-Tabarani recorded it in al-Mu'jam al-Awsat. Its chain contains a group of narrators whom I do not know.

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) says: "The blood money of a dhimmi is like the blood money of a Muslim." Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) also said the same. Its narrators are the narrators of the Sahih, except that the narrator Mujahid heard neither from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) nor from Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him).

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Amr (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates: The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) ruled concerning the blood money of an unborn child, when it is in its mother's womb (and dies there), that a slave or a slave-woman is to be given for it as compensation. He gave this ruling concerning Sayyiduna Hamal bin Malik bin al-Nabighah al-Hudhali. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) also said: "There is no shighar in Islam."
Ahmad recorded it. Its chain contains a narrator, Ibn Ishaq, who is a mudallis; the remaining narrators of this report are thiqat (trustworthy).

It is narrated about Sayyiduna Umar bin al-Khattab (may Allah be pleased with him) that he was present when the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) gave his ruling on this matter. Hamal bin Malik bin al-Nabighah came and said: "I have two wives. One of them struck the other with a piece of wood and killed her and the child in her womb." So the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) ruled that a slave be paid as compensation for the child in the woman's womb, and he ruled that she (in return for the woman) be killed. (Allamah al-Haythami says:) I say: The hadith narrated by Sayyiduna Hamal bin Malik (may Allah be pleased with him) is found in the three "Sunan" through Sayyiduna Hamal (may Allah be pleased with him) himself, and I have recorded it here because Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) narrated it from Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him), stating that he was present when the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) gave the ruling.
Ahmad recorded it, and its narrators are the narrators of the Sahih.

Sayyiduna Jabir (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates: Of two women from the tribe of Hudhayl, one killed the other. Then the narrator mentioned the whole hadith, in which, further on, he states that the woman who was killed was pregnant. The family of the slain woman said that this woman had been pregnant and that the child had come out of her womb dead. The family of the woman who killed her feared that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) might make them liable to pay the blood money. They said: "O Messenger of Allah, this child neither drank anything nor ate anything, nor cried out nor wailed." The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Is this the rhymed speech of the Age of Ignorance?" Then he ruled that a slave or a slave-woman be paid for the child in the womb.
Abu Ya'la recorded it through Mujalid bin Sa'id from al-Sha'bi. Ibn Adi says: The narrations of this route are salih (fair). The remaining narrators of this report are the narrators of the Sahih. A group of scholars declared the narrator Mujalid da'if (weak).
Abu Dawud and Ibn Majah also recorded this report, without the words about the rhymed speech of the Age of Ignorance.

Abu al-Malih al-Hudhali narrates this statement of his father: There was a man among us named Hamal bin Malik bin al-Nabighah, who had two wives: one of them was from the tribe of Hudhayl and the other from Banu Amir. The woman from Hudhayl struck the belly of the woman from Amir with a tent pole, and the other woman gave birth to a dead child. Hamal bin Malik took the woman who had struck her to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him); with that woman was her brother, whose name was Imran bin Uwaymir. When they related the whole incident to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Pay its blood money." Imran bin Uwaymir said: "O Prophet of Allah, shall we pay blood money for one who neither ate anything nor drank anything, nor cried out nor wailed? Blood like this goes unavenged." The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Keep this Bedouin-style rhyming away from me! For it, a slave or a slave-woman must be paid, or five hundred, or a horse, or one hundred and twenty goats." That man said: "O Messenger of Allah, this woman has two sons, and both of them are chiefs of the tribe; they are more entitled to pay the blood money on behalf of their mother." The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "You are more entitled than this woman's children to pay the blood money on behalf of your sister." The man said: "I have nothing that I could pay as blood money." The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "O Hamal bin Malik." The narrator said: In those days he was in charge of the charity (sadaqah) of the tribe of Hudhayl, and he was the husband of that woman and the father of the slain child in her womb. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Take one hundred and twenty goats from the charity of Hudhayl that is in your charge." And he did so.
Al-Tabarani recorded it, and al-Bazzar recorded it in a greatly abridged form. Its chain contains a narrator, al-Minhal bin Khalifah, whom Abu Hatim declared thiqah (trustworthy), while a group declared him da'if (weak); the remaining narrators of this report are thiqat (trustworthy).

Abu al-Malih narrates from his father, who had the honour of being a Companion: There were two women among us; one of them struck the other with a piece of wood and killed her, and also killed the child in her womb. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) ruled that blood money be paid for the woman, and that for the child a slave or a slave-woman, or a horse, or two camels, or such-and-such a number of goats be paid. A man from the family of the woman who had killed her said: "O Messenger of Allah, how can we pay blood money for one (a child) who neither ate anything nor drank anything, nor cried out nor wailed? Blood like this goes unavenged." The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Are you speaking in rhymed prose?" Then the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) ruled that the woman's inheritance goes to her husband and her children, and that the payment of the blood money is due from the paternal kinsmen ('asabah) of the woman who killed her.
Al-Tabarani recorded it from his teacher al-Miqdam bin Dawud, who is da'if (weak).

Sayyiduna Uwaymir (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates: My sister Mulaykah and a woman of our family named Umm Afif bint Masruh were both wives of Hamal bin al-Nabighah. Umm Afif struck Mulaykah with a piece of wood that was in her house. Mulaykah was pregnant; as a result she was killed, and there was also a child in her womb (it too was killed). The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) ruled that blood money be paid for her (the woman), and for the child in her womb that a slave or a boy (that is, a slave's child or a slave-woman) be paid. The woman's brother, al-Ala' bin Masruh, said: "O Messenger of Allah, is compensation to be paid for one (a child) who neither ate anything nor drank anything, nor spoke nor wailed? Blood like this goes unavenged." The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Is this rhymed speech, like the rhymed speech of the Age of Ignorance?"
Al-Tabarani recorded it. Its chain contains a narrator, Muhammad bin Sulayman bin Masmul, who is da'if (weak).