Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 29919 — A man found cut to pieces

Sa'id bin Muslim says that al-Sha'bi was asked about a slain person who was found lying in three neighbourhoods, in this way: his head was found in one neighbourhood, his legs in another neighbourhood and his middle part in another neighbourhood; what is the ruling? Al-Sha'bi said: "The funeral prayer is to be offered over his middle part, and upon the people of the place where the middle part was found are the blood money and the qasamah (oath): 'We did not kill him, and we do not know who killed him.'"