Sahih al-Bukhari

Sahih al-Bukhari 5759, 5760

Arabic hadith text

حَدَّثَنَا قُتَيْبَةُ، عَنْ مَالِكٍ، عَنِ ابْنِ شِهَابٍ، عَنْ أَبِي سَلَمَةَ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ ـ رضى الله عنه ـ أَنَّ امْرَأَتَيْنِ، رَمَتْ إِحْدَاهُمَا الأُخْرَى بِحَجَرٍ فَطَرَحَتْ جَنِينَهَا، فَقَضَى فِيهِ النَّبِيُّ صلى الله عليه وسلم بِغُرَّةٍ عَبْدٍ أَوْ وَلِيدَةٍ‏.‏ وَعَنِ ابْنِ شِهَابٍ، عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ الْمُسَيَّبِ، أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم قَضَى فِي الْجَنِينِ يُقْتَلُ فِي بَطْنِ أُمِّهِ بِغُرَّةٍ عَبْدٍ أَوْ وَلِيدَةٍ‏.‏ فَقَالَ الَّذِي قُضِيَ عَلَيْهِ كَيْفَ أَغْرَمُ مَنْ لاَ أَكَلَ، وَلاَ شَرِبَ، وَلاَ نَطَقَ، وَلاَ اسْتَهَلَّ، وَمِثْلُ ذَلِكَ بَطَلْ فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم ‏"‏ إِنَّمَا هَذَا مِنْ إِخْوَانِ الْكُهَّانِ ‏"‏‏.‏

Translation

Qutaybah narrated to us, from Mālik, from Ibn Shihāb, from Abū Salamah, from Abū Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him): “Two women fought, and one threw a stone at the other, causing her to miscarry. The Prophet ﷺ ruled that compensation for the fetus was a male or female slave.”

From Ibn Shihāb, from Saʿīd ibn al-Musayyab: “The Messenger of Allah ﷺ ruled that for a fetus killed in its mother’s womb, compensation was a male or female slave.” The person ordered to pay said, “How can I pay compensation for one who neither ate, drank, nor spoke, and did not cry at birth? A claim like that is void.” The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, “This is one of the utterances of the soothsayers.”