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Yahya related to me from Malik from Ibn Shihab from Irak ibn
Malik and Sulayman ibn Yasar that a man of the Banu Sad ibn Layth was
running a horse and it trod on the finger of a man from the Juhayna
tribe. It bled profusely, and he died. Umar ibn al-Khattab said to
those against whom the claim was made. "Do you swear by Allah with
fifty oaths that he did not die of it?" They refused and stopped
themselves from doing it. He said to the others, "Will you take an
oath?" They refused, so Umar ibn al-Khattab gave a judgement that the
Banu Sad had to pay half the full blood-money.
Malik said,
"One does not act on this."
Muwatta Malik Book 43, Hadith 5
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Yahya related to me from Malik from Yahya ibn Said that Marwan
ibn al-Hakam wrote to Muawiya ibn Abi Sufyan that a madman was brought
to him who had killed a man. Muawiya wrote to him, "Tie him up and do
not inflict any retaliation on him. There is no retaliation against a
madman."
Malik said about an adult and a child when they
murder a man together, "The adult is killed and the child pays half
the full blood-money."
Malik said, "It is like that with a
freeman and a slave when they murder a slave. The slave is killed and
the freeman pays half of his value." Muwatta Malik Book 43, Hadith 4
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Yahya related to me from Malik
that Ibn Shihab, Sulayman ibn Yasar, and Rabia ibn Abi Abd ar-Rahman
said, "The blood-money of manslaughter is twenty yearlings, twenty
two-year-olds, twenty male two-year-olds, twenty four-year-olds, and
twenty five-year-olds."
Malik said, "The generally agreed on
way with us is that there is no retaliation against children. Their
intention is accidental. The hudud are not obliged for them if they
have not yet reached puberty. If a child kills someone it is only
accidentally. Had a child and an adult killed a free man accidentally,
each of them pays half the full blood-money."
Malik said, "A
person who kills someone accidentally pays blood-money with his
property and there is no retaliation against him. That money is like
anything else from the dead man's property and his debt is paid with
it and he is allowed to make a bequest from it. If he has a total
property of which the blood-money is a third and then the blood-money
is relinquished, that is permitted to him. If all the property he has
is his blood-money, he is permitted to relinquish a third of it and to
make that a bequest." Muwatta Malik Book 43, Hadith 6