Mukhtasar Muslim

`Sayyiduna Abu Hurairah (may Allah be pleased with him) reports that two women from the tribe of Huzail fought with each other. One struck the other with a stone, causing her death as well as the death of the child in her womb. The people sought a judgment from the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), so he ruled that the blood money for the child is a male or female slave, and the blood money for the woman is to be paid by the family of the killer. He also made her children and other heirs inheritors in her blood money. Haml bin Nabighah Huzali said, "O Messenger of Allah! How can we pay compensation for one who neither drank nor ate, neither spoke nor cried out? Such a one is nothing (i.e., insignificant)!" The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said, "He is the brother of soothsayers because of his rhymed speech."