Mishkat al-Masabih

Mishkat al-Masabih 3487

Arabic hadith text

وَعَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ قَالَ: قَضَى رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ فِي جَنِينِ امْرَأَةٍ مَنْ بَنِي لِحْيَانَ سَقَطَ مَيِّتًا بِغُرَّةِ: عَبْدٍ أَوْ أَمَةٍ ثُمَّ إِنَّ الْمَرْأَةَ الَّتِي قُضِيَ عَلَيْهَا بِالْغُرَّةِ تُوُفِّيَتْ فَقَضَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ بِأَنْ مِيرَاثَهَا لبنيها وَزوجهَا الْعقل على عصبتها

Translation

Abu Hurayrah reported: The Messenger of God ruled concerning the fetus of a woman from Banu Lihyan, born dead, that the compensation was a male or female slave. Then the woman who had been ordered to pay this compensation died. The Messenger of God ruled that her inheritance was for her sons and husband, and that the blood money was payable by her agnates.

Translation notes
  • The English witness adds an explanatory footnote about the circumstances of the fetal death; it is absent from the Arabic passage. It also adds Bukhari and Muslim as attribution, which the Arabic text does not include.