Sunan Ibn Majah
The Chapters on Blood Money
كتاب الديات
Chapter 19
الْمُوضِحَةِ
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Jamil ibn al-Hasan reported to us: Abd al-Ala reported to us: Said ibn Abi Arubah reported to us, from Matar, from Amr ibn Shuayb, from his father, from his grandfather, that the Prophet (Allah bless him and grant him peace) said, “These and these are equal,” meaning the little finger and the thumb.
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
The Arabic explicitly identifies the little finger (khinsir) and the thumb.
Chapter 20
مَنْ عَضَّ رَجُلاً فَنَزَعَ يَدَهُ فَنَدَرَ ثَنَايَاهُ
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Abu Bakr ibn Abi Shaybah reported to us: Abd al-Rahim ibn Sulayman reported to us, from Muhammad ibn Ishaq, from Ata, from Safwan ibn Abdullah, from his paternal uncles Ya‘la and Salamah, both sons of Umayyah, who said: We went with the Messenger of Allah (Allah bless him and grant him peace) on the expedition to Tabuk, accompanied by a friend of ours. He quarreled with another man on the road. The man bit his companion’s hand, and the companion pulled his hand from his mouth, knocking out one of his teeth. He came to the Messenger of Allah seeking compensation for the tooth. The Messenger of Allah said, ‘Would one of you deliberately bite his brother like a stallion and then come seeking compensation? There is no compensation for it.’ The Messenger of Allah therefore disallowed his claim.
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
The Arabic presents the incident as biting with the teeth like a stallion, then rejects compensation for the tooth lost when the bitten man pulled away.
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Ali ibn Muhammad reported to us: Abdullah ibn Numayr reported to us, from Said ibn Abi Arubah, from Qatadah, from Zurarah ibn Awfa, from Imran ibn Husayn: A man bit another man’s arm. The latter pulled his arm away and the biter’s incisor fell out. The matter was brought before the Prophet (Allah bless him and grant him peace), who rejected the claim. He said, ‘Would one of you bite as a stallion bites?’
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
The Arabic locates the bite on the forearm and identifies the tooth lost as the incisor.
Chapter 21
لاَ يُقْتَلُ مُسْلِمٌ بِكَافِرٍ
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Alqamah ibn Amr al-Darimi reported to us: Abu Bakr ibn Ayyash reported to us, from Mutarrif, from al-Shabi, from Abu Juhaifah, who said: I asked Ali ibn Abi Talib, ‘Do you have any knowledge that other people do not have?’ He replied, ‘No, by Allah. We have only what other people have, except that Allah may grant a person understanding of the Quran, or what is in this document. It contains blood-money rulings from the Messenger of Allah (Allah bless him and grant him peace), and that no Muslim is to be killed for a non-Muslim.’
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The Arabic concludes with the legal statement that a Muslim is not killed in retaliation for a non-Muslim; the witness’s explanatory wording is kept implicit.
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Hisham ibn Ammar reported to us: Hatim ibn Ismail reported to us: Abd al-Rahman ibn Ayyash reported to us, from Amr ibn Shuayb, from his father, from his grandfather, who said: The Messenger of Allah (Allah bless him and grant him peace) said, ‘A Muslim is not to be killed in retaliation for a non-Muslim.’
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Muhammad ibn Abd al-Ala al-Sanani reported to us: Mutamir ibn Sulayman reported to us, from his father, from Hanash, from Ikrimah, from Ibn Abbas, from the Prophet (Allah bless him and grant him peace), who said, ‘A believer is not to be killed in retaliation for a non-Muslim, nor a person under covenant during the term of his covenant.’
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The Arabic says ‘a person under covenant in his covenant’ and preserves the treaty condition.
Chapter 22
لا يُقْتَلُ الْوَالِدُ بِوَلَدِهِ
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Suwayd ibn Said reported to us: Ali ibn Mushir reported to us, from Ismail ibn Muslim, from Amr ibn Dinar, from Tawus, from Ibn Abbas, that the Messenger of Allah (Allah bless him and grant him peace) said, ‘A parent is not to be killed for his child.’
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Abu Bakr ibn Abi Shaybah reported to us: Abu Khalid al-Ahmar reported to us, from Hajjaj, from Amr ibn Shuayb, from his father, from his grandfather, from Umar ibn al-Khattab, who said: I heard the Messenger of Allah (Allah bless him and grant him peace) say, ‘A parent is not to be killed in retaliation for a child.’
Chapter 23
هَلْ يُقْتَلُ الْحُرُّ بِالْعَبْدِ
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Ali ibn Muhammad reported to us: Waki reported to us, from Said ibn Abi Arubah, from Qatadah, from al-Hasan, from Samurah ibn Jundub, who said: The Messenger of Allah (Allah bless him and grant him peace) said, ‘Whoever kills his slave, We will kill him; whoever mutilates him, We will mutilate him.’
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Muhammad ibn Yahya reported to us: Ibn al-Tabba‘ reported to us: Ismail ibn Ayyash reported to us, from Ishaq ibn Abdullah ibn Abi Farwah, from Ibrahim ibn Abdullah ibn Hunayn, from his father, from Ali—and from Amr ibn Shuayb, from his father, from his grandfather—who said: A man deliberately and intentionally killed his slave, so the Messenger of Allah (Allah bless him and grant him peace) flogged him one hundred times, banished him for a year, and erased his share among the Muslims.’
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
The Arabic gives two routes (‘from Ali’ and ‘from Amr ibn Shuayb, from his father, from his grandfather’) leading to the report; both are retained.
Chapter 24
يُقْتَادُ مِنَ الْقَاتِلِ كَمَا قَتَلَ
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Ali ibn Muhammad reported to us: Waki reported to us, from Hammam ibn Yahya, from Qatadah, from Anas ibn Malik: A Jewish man crushed a woman’s head between two stones and killed her. The Messenger of Allah (Allah bless him and grant him peace) then crushed his head between two stones.
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Muhammad ibn Bashshar reported to us: Muhammad ibn Ja‘far reported to us. Ishaq ibn Mansur reported to us: al-Nadr ibn Shumayl reported to us; they both said: Shu‘bah reported to us, from Hisham ibn Zayd, from Anas ibn Malik: A Jewish man killed a young woman over some silver ornaments. He asked her, ‘Did so-and-so kill you?’ She shook her head to say no. He asked her a second time, and she again shook her head to say no. He asked her a third time, and she nodded yes. The Messenger of Allah (Allah bless him and grant him peace) then killed him between two stones.
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
The Arabic says her head gesture was no twice and yes on the third question; the witness’s timeline is preserved.
Chapter 25
لاَ قَوَدَ إِلاَّ بِالسَّيْفِ
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Ibrahim ibn al-Mustamir al-Urquqi reported to us: Abu Asim reported to us, from Sufyan, from Jabir, from Abu Azib, from al-Numan ibn Bashir, that the Messenger of Allah (Allah bless him and grant him peace) said, ‘There is no retaliation except with the sword.’
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Ibrahim ibn al-Mustamir reported to us: al-Hurr ibn Malik al-Anbari reported to us: Mubarak ibn Fadalah reported to us, from al-Hasan, from Abu Bakrah, who said: The Messenger of Allah (Allah bless him and grant him peace) said, ‘There is no retaliation except with the sword.’
Chapter 26
لاَ يَجْنِي أَحَدٌ عَلَى أَحَدٍ
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Abu Bakr ibn Abi Shaybah reported to us: Abu al-Ahwas reported to us, from Shabib ibn Gharqadah, from Sulayman ibn Amr ibn al-Ahwas, from his father, who said: I heard the Messenger of Allah (Allah bless him and grant him peace) say during the Farewell Pilgrimage, ‘No bearer of a burden bears the burden of another. A father is not to be held liable for his child, nor a child for his father.’
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The Arabic uses the broad verb tajni, ‘commit/acquire a liability,’ and states that no one bears another’s liability.
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Abu Bakr ibn Abi Shaybah reported to us: Abdullah ibn Numayr reported to us, from Yazid ibn Abi Ziyad, who said: Jami ibn Shaddad reported to us, from Tariq al-Muharibi, who said: I saw the Messenger of Allah (Allah bless him and grant him peace) raise his hands until I saw the whiteness of his armpits, saying, ‘No mother bears liability for her child! No mother bears liability for her child!’
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The Arabic repeats the phrase twice and speaks of a mother’s liability for her child; it does not say ‘punished’ as in the English witness.
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ʿAmr ibn Rāfiʿ narrated to us: Hushaym narrated to us, from Yūnus, from Ḥuṣayn ibn Abī al-Ḥurr, from al-Khashkhāsh al-ʿAnbarī, who said: I came to the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, with my son. He said: “He does not incur liability on your behalf, and you do not incur liability on his behalf.”
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Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUbayd ibn ʿAqīl narrated to us: ʿAmr ibn ʿĀṣim narrated to us: Abū al-ʿAwwām al-Qaṭṭān narrated to us, from Muḥammad ibn Juḥādah, from Ziyād ibn ʿAlāqah, from Usāmah ibn Sharīk, who said: The Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, said: “No soul bears liability for another.”
Chapter 27
الْجُبَارِ
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Abū Bakr ibn Abī Shaybah narrated to us: Sufyān narrated to us, from al-Zuhrī, from Saʿīd ibn al-Musayyab, from Abū Hurayrah, who said: The Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, said: “An injury caused by an animal is without liability; a mine is without liability; and a well is without liability.”
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Abū Bakr ibn Abī Shaybah narrated to us: Khālid ibn Makhlad narrated to us: Kathīr ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAmr ibn ʿAwf narrated to us, from his father, from his grandfather, who said: I heard the Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, say: “An injury caused by an animal is without liability, and a mine is without liability.”