Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah

Imam Abu Ja'far Muhammad bin Ali (may Allah be pleased with him), Sa'id bin al-Musayyib, and Hazrat Mujahid—all these personalities state that the two wives of Haml bin Malik bin al-Nabighah became jealous of each other. So one of them picked up a tent pole and struck the other with such force that the second woman gave birth to a stillborn child and herself also died. This matter was presented before the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), so the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) decided that the blood money would be borne by the family of the woman who committed the killing. And for the blood money of the stillborn child, he decided upon a slave or a slave-girl. Then the father or uncle of the woman who committed the killing said: "Shall we pay blood money for one who neither ate nor drank, neither cried nor made a sound, and whose blood is thus wasted?" The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) replied: "This person is a poet and speaks like a poet. Yes! The blood money for the stillborn child will be a slave or a slave-girl."