The tongue: what is due if it is injured?

It is narrated from a man of the family of Umar that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: For the tongue there is the full blood money (diyah).

It is narrated from al-Zuhri that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: When the tongue is torn out from the root, there is the full blood money (diyah) for it.

Something similar is also narrated from Makhul in marfu' form.

Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) said that for the tongue there is the blood money (diyah).

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah (may Allah be pleased with him) that when the tongue is torn out from the root, the blood money will be in five parts, and whatever is less than that (that is, it was not torn out from the root), the blood money will be in proportion to it.

Umar bin Abdul Aziz said that for the tongue there is the full blood money, and when a wound to the tongue grows so severe that one cannot speak, there will also be the full blood money for it.

Ibrahim said that at the root of the tongue (there is the full blood money).

The same is also narrated from al-Hasan.

Sayyiduna Zayd bin Thabit (may Allah be pleased with him) said that when the tongue is split and then its wound heals, there are twenty camels.

Ibn Jurayj said: I asked Ata: What if the whole tongue is cut off? He replied that there will be the blood money.

Amr bin Shu'ayb said that Sayyiduna Abu Bakr (may Allah be pleased with him) decided, regarding the tongue, on the full blood money when it is cut from the root, and on half the blood money if its tip is cut and the owner of the tongue can still speak.

Ibn Jurayj said that Sulayman bin Musa said that it is in the book of Umar bin Abdul Aziz that if so much of the tongue is cut off that the person is unable to speak, there is the full blood money for it, and if less than that is cut off, the blood money is in proportion to it.

Ibn Jurayj said: Abdul Aziz bin Umar informed me that it is written in a book of Umar bin Abdul Aziz that it is narrated from Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) that when the tongue is torn out from the root, there is the full blood money for it; and when a wound to the tongue grows so severe that it prevents speech, there is also the full blood money for it; and for the tongue of a woman there is also the full blood money; and when a wound to a woman's tongue grows so severe that it prevents speech, there is also the full blood money for it; and if the wound is of a lesser degree than that, the blood money will be in proportion to it.

Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) said that for the tongue there is the blood money.

Ibrahim said that for the tongue there is the blood money.