A man and a boy standing in a place, with the matter unknown

Mughirah said: I asked Ibrahim about a boy who was flying pigeons on a roof while a man was also on the roof, and then the boy fell. Ibrahim said: Perhaps they would say: perhaps that man told him to do something.

Abu Mijlaz said: If you said to a man standing at a deadly place, meaning a place of destruction (a bridge or a wall): Get away, beware of it, and he fell, you would pay compensation.

Ibn Jurayj said: I asked Ata: If a man says to a child: Move back, and the child falls and dies, what is the ruling? He said: They narrate from Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) that he would hold him liable. They say: Because he frightened him. I asked him: If someone said this to an adult? Ata said: The ruling is still the same.

I said: What if he called out to an adult? He said: I see it only as being the same. I went back and forth with him, and he held that he should pay compensation.