Mishkat al-Masabih
Mishkat al-Masabih 3508, 3509
وَعَن سَعِيدِ بْنِ الْمُسَيَّبِ: أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَضَى فِي الْجَنِينِ يُقْتَلُ فِي بَطْنِ أُمِّهِ بِغُرَّةِ عَبْدٍ أَوْ وَلِيدَةٍ. فَقَالَ الَّذِي قُضِيَ عليهِ: كيفَ أَغْرَمُ مَنْ لَا شَرِبَ وَلَا أَكَلَ وَلَا نَطَقَ وَلَا اسْتَهَلَّ وَمِثْلُ ذَلِكَ يُطَلُّ. فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «إِنَّمَا هَذَا مِنْ إِخْوَانِ الْكُهَّانِ» . رَوَاهُ مالكٌ وَالنَّسَائِيّ مُرْسلا وَرَوَاهُ أَبُو دَاوُدَ عَنْهُ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ مُتَّصِلا
Sa'id ibn al-Musayyab reported: The Messenger of God ruled that compensation for a fetus killed in its mother’s womb was a male or female slave. The person ordered to pay said, ‘How can I pay compensation for one who neither drank nor ate nor spoke nor cried out? Such compensation is simply wasted.’ The Messenger of God said: ‘This is one of the utterances of soothsayers.’ Malik and al-Nasa'i transmitted it in mursal form. Abu Dawud transmitted it from him, from Abu Hurayrah, with a connected chain.
Translation notes
The English witness explains the rhyme and style of the disputed statement in a footnote; that explanation is absent from the Arabic text. The Arabic reports both mursal versions and a connected version from Abu Hurayrah.