موطا امام مالك رواية يحييٰ
Muwatta Imam Malik (Riwayat Yahya)
كتاب العقولBook: On the Explanation of Blood Money
بَابُ عَقْلِ الْجَنِينِBlood money for a fetus
Hadith 1505B2
قَالَ مَالِكٌ : وَلَا حَيَاةَ لِلْجَنِينِ إِلَّا بِالْاسْتِهْلَالِ، فَإِذَا خَرَجَ مِنْ بَطْنِ أُمِّهِ فَاسْتَهَلَّ، ثُمَّ مَاتَ فَفِيهِ الدِّيَةُ كَامِلَةً، وَنَرَى أَنَّ فِي جَنِينِ الْأَمَةِ عُشْرَ ثَمَنِ أُمِّهِ. ¤
Imam Malik, may Allah have mercy on him, said that the life of a fetus, that is, a child in the womb, will be determined by its crying; if it cries and then dies, the full blood money will be obligatory, and in the case of a slave woman’s fetus, one-tenth of the value of that slave woman must be given.
