A man who throws fire and burns a people's house

Shu'bah said: I asked al-Hakam and Hammad, both of them, about a man who threw fire into the house of some people and they were burned, and what the ruling on him is. The two of them said: There is no retaliation due from him; he is not to be executed.

Abd al-Aziz bin Husayn said that Yahya bin Yahya al-Ghassani said: A man burned straw on his open land, and a flame of the fire came out until it burned something of his neighbour's. He said: I wrote to Umar bin Abd al-Aziz about this, and he wrote back to me: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "There is no liability for a wound caused by an animal," and my opinion is that there is no liability for damage caused by fire either.

Shu'bah said: I asked al-Hakam and Hammad about a man who set fire to a house and burned the people in it. The two of them said: That person is not to be executed.