The Book on Blood Money

كتاب الديات عن رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم

Chapter 1: What Has Been Related About Blood Money, How Many Camels Is It?

Narrated Ibn Mas'ud

"The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) judged for the accidental blood-Money: Twenty Bint Makhad, twenty make Ibn Makhad, twenty Bint Labunm twenty Jadha'ah, and twenty Hiqqah.(Another chain) with similar meaning.

Narrated Amr bin Shu'aib

from his father, from his grandfather that the Prophet (ﷺ) said: "Whoever kills [a believer] deliberately, he is handed over to the guardians of the one killed. If they wish to, they have him killed, and if they wish to, they take the blood-money. That is thirty Hiqqah, thirty Jadha'ahs and forty pregnant camels. Whatever (amount more) they require from him, than that is for them (if they choose)." THat is because of the severity of blood-money.

Chapter 2: What Has Been Related About Blood-Money, How Many Dirham Is It ?

Narrated 'Ikrimah

from Ibn 'Abbas that the Prophet (ﷺ) made the blood-money twelve thousand.

(Another chain) from 'Ikrimah from the Prophet (ﷺ) and it is similar but he did not mention "from Ibn 'Abbas" in it.There is much more criticism than this for (this) narration of Ibn 'Uyainah.

Chapter 3: What Has Been Related About The Mawadih [Wounds that expose a bone]

Narrated 'Amr bin Shu'aib

from his father, from his grandfather that the Prophet (ﷺ) said: "Regarding the Mawadih; five, five."

Chapter 4: What Has Been Related About Blood-Money For Fingers

Narrated Ibn 'Abbas

that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: "The blood-money for the fingers on the hands and (the toes of) the feet is the same: Ten camels for each finger."

Narrated Ibn 'Abbas

that the Prophet (ﷺ) said: "These and these are the same." referring to the little finger and thumb.

Chapter 5: What Has Been Related About Pardoning

Narrated Abu As-Safar

"A man from the Quraish broke a tooth of a man from the Ansar. So he appealed to Mu'awiyah against him. He said to Mu'awiyah: 'O Commander of the Believers! This person broke one of my teeth.' Mu'awiyah said: 'We will try to get satisfaction for you.' And the other person insisted that Mu'awiyah get him to agree [but he was not satisfied]. So Mu'awiyah said him: 'It is up to your companion.' Abu Ad-Darda' was sitting with him, so Abu Ad-Darda said: 'I heard the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) saying [he said: 'My ears heard and my heart remembered]: "There is no man who is struck in his body and he forgives for it, except that Allah raises him a level and removes a sin from him.'" The Ansari said: 'Did you hear that from the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ)?' He said: "My ears heard it and my heart remembered it.' He said: 'Then I will leave it to him.' Mu'awiyah said: 'Surely you should not suffer.' So he ordered that he be given some wealth."

Chapter 6: What Has Been Related About One Whose Head Was Fractured With A Rock

Narrated Anas

that a girl went out in Al-Madinah wearing some silver ornaments. A Jew grabbed her and fractured her head with a stone, and he took the jewelry she had on. He said: "She was found with some spark of life in her, and was brought to the Prophet (ﷺ) and he said: 'Did such and such person strike you?' She nodded 'no' with her head. He said: 'Such and such?' until he named the Jew and she nodded 'yes' with her head." He said: "He was brought and recognized so the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) ordered that his head be crushed between two stones."

Chapter 7: What Has Been Related About The Gravity Of Killing A Believer

Narrated 'Abdullah bin 'Amr

(Another chain) from 'Abdullah bin 'Amr, and it is similar but he did not narrated it in Marfu' form.

Chapter 8: Judgements For Cases Involving Bloodshed

Narrated 'Abdullah

that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: "Indeed the first cases to be judged between the people are those of bloodshed."

'Abdullah narrated that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said

"Indeed the first cases to be judged between the worshippers are those of bloodshed."

Narrated Abul-Hakam Al-Bajali

"I heard Abu Sa'eed Al-Khudri and Abu Hurairah mentioning from the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) that he said: 'If the inhabitants of the heavens and the inhabitants of the earth all took part in shedding the blood of believer, then Allah would cast them (all) in the Fire."

Chapter 9: What Has Been Related About A Man Who Kills His Son: Is He To Suffer Requital For Him Or Not ?

Narrated Suraqah bin Malik bin [Ju'shum]

"The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) judged that the son is to suffer retaliation for [killing] his father, but the father is not to suffer retaliation for [killing] his son."

Narrated 'Umar bin Al-Khattab

that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: "The father does not suffer retaliation for [killing] the son."

Narrated Ibn 'Abbas

that the Prophet (ﷺ) said: 'The Hudud are not carried in the Masjid, and the father is not killed for the son."

Chapter 10: What Has Been Related About 'The Blood Of A Muslim Man Is Not Lawful Except For One Of Three Cases'

Narrated 'Abdullah bin Mas'ud

that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: "The blood of a Muslim man, who testifies that none has the right to be worshipped Allah, is not lawful except for one of three cases: The (previously married or) married adulterer, a life for a life, and the one who leaves the religion and parts from the Jama'ah (the community of Muslims.)

Chapter 11: What Has Been Related About One Who Kills A Mu'ahid

Narrated Abu Hurairah

that the Prophet (ﷺ) said: "Indeed, whoever kills a Mu'ahid that has a covenant from Allah and a covenant from His Messenger (ﷺ), then he has violated the covenant with Allah and the covenant of His Messenger, so he shall not smell the fragrance of Paradise; even though its fragrance can be sensed from the distance of seventy autumns."

Chapter 12

Narrated Ibn 'Abbas

"The Prophet (ﷺ) assigned the same blood-money for the two 'Amiris as that of the Muslims, and they had covenant from the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ)."