A man who strikes another man, who remains ill until he dies

Mughirah said that al-Harith said, concerning a man who struck another man: When witnesses testify that this person struck him, and that he remained continuously ill because of his blow and then died, he said: I would impose the blood money upon him. If he struck him deliberately, there is retaliation, and if it happened by mistake, then the blood money is due from the family.

Hisham said that al-Hasan al-Basri said: When a man strikes another man and he remains lying ill in bed until he dies, retaliation is due in that case.

Tamim bin Salamah said that two men testified before Shurayh against a man. They said: We testify that this man threw that man down and kept pressing him with his elbow until the man died. Shurayh asked: Do you both testify that he killed him? They answered: We testify that this man threw him down and kept pressing him with his elbow until he died. He asked: Do you both testify that he killed him?

Ibn Shihab said that in the time of Sayyiduna Umar bin al-Khattab (may Allah be pleased with him), a man from the tribe of Juhaynah trampled a man from the tribe of Banu Ghifar, or the narrator said: a man from the tribe of Banu Ghifar trampled a man of Juhaynah. The man's family claimed that he had died because of this, so Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) asked fifty men of the claimants to swear an oath. They refused to swear, and those against whom the claim had been made also refused to swear, so Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) decided in this matter on half the blood money.

Hasan bin Muslim said that a slave woman bit the finger of a freed slave of Banu Zayd, and it swelled up, and then that man died. The slave woman also admitted to biting his finger. In this matter, Umar bin Abdul Aziz decided that Banu Zayd would swear fifty oaths, in such a way that the oaths are returned to them, that the man died because of the slave woman's bite; then the slave woman would go to them, otherwise they would have no right. But they refused to swear.