Those who said: The blood money of a dhimmi is half or less

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Amr (may Allah be pleased with him) said that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The blood money of a disbeliever is half the blood money of a believer."

Abu al-Zinad said that Umar bin Abd al-Aziz said: The blood money of one under a covenant (mu'ahid) is half the blood money of a Muslim.

Hisham said: I read the letter of Umar bin Abd al-Aziz: that the blood money of a Jew and a Christian is one-third of the blood money of a Muslim.

Sa'id bin al-Musayyib said that Sayyiduna Umar bin al-Khattab (may Allah be pleased with him) said: The blood money of a Jew and a Christian is four thousand dirhams, and the blood money of a Magian is eight hundred dirhams.

Uthman bin Ghiyath said that Ikrimah and al-Hasan al-Basri, both of them, said: "The blood money of a Jew and a Christian is four thousand dirhams, and the blood money of a Magian is eight hundred dirhams."

Yahya bin Sa'id said that Sulayman bin Yasar said: "In the early period, the judges used to rule eight hundred dirhams as the blood money of a fire-worshipper, and for the blood money of a Jew and a Christian they used to rule as much as the members of a tribe could jointly pay among themselves. Then the matter of blood money returned to six thousand dirhams."

Abd al-Malik said that Ata said: "The blood money of a Jew and a Christian is four thousand dirhams, and the blood money of a fire-worshipper is eight hundred dirhams."

Ash'ath said that Nafi' and Amr bin Dinar, both of them, used to say: "The blood money of a Jew and a Christian is four thousand dirhams."

Sa'id bin al-Musayyib said that Sayyiduna Uthman (may Allah be pleased with him) ruled four thousand dirhams as the blood money of a Jew and a Christian.