Sunan Ibn Majah
Sunan Ibn Majah 2641
حَدَّثَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ الدَّارِمِيُّ، حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو عَاصِمٍ، أَخْبَرَنِي ابْنُ جُرَيْجٍ، حَدَّثَنِي عَمْرُو بْنُ دِينَارٍ، أَنَّهُ سَمِعَ طَاوُسًا، عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ، عَنْ عُمَرَ بْنِ الْخَطَّابِ، أَنَّهُ نَشَدَ النَّاسَ قَضَاءَ النَّبِيِّ صلى الله عليه وسلم فِي ذَلِكَ يَعْنِي فِي الْجَنِينِ فَقَامَ حَمَلُ بْنُ مَالِكِ بْنِ النَّابِغَةِ فَقَالَ كُنْتُ بَيْنَ امْرَأَتَيْنِ لِي فَضَرَبَتْ إِحْدَاهُمَا الأُخْرَى بِمِسْطَحٍ فَقَتَلَتْهَا وَقَتَلَتْ جَنِينَهَا فَقَضَى رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم فِي الْجَنِينِ بِغُرَّةٍ عَبْدٍ وَأَنْ تُقْتَلَ بِهَا .
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
Ahmad ibn Said al-Darimi reported to us: Abu Asim reported to us: Ibn Jurayj informed me: Amr ibn Dinar informed me that he heard Tawus, from Ibn Abbas, from Umar ibn al-Khattab, who asked people to recall the Prophet’s ruling concerning that matter—that is, the fetus. Hamal ibn Malik ibn al-Nabighah stood and said, ‘I was between two of my wives when one struck the other with a tent pole, killing her and her fetus.’ The Messenger of Allah (Allah bless him and grant him peace) ruled that compensation for the fetus was a male slave, and that the woman be killed in retaliation for her.’
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
The Arabic explicitly clarifies that the question concerns the fetus and specifies the miscarried fetus’s compensation and retaliation for the woman killed.