Collection: Sahih Muslim

This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Sahl b. Abu Hathma through another chain of transmitters.

You take fifty oaths and you are entitled to blood-wit of (one) slain among you (or your companion). They said: Messenger of Allah, we neither saw (with our own eyes this murder) nor were we present there. Thereupon (Allah’s Messenger is reported to have said): Then the Jews will exonerate themselves by taking fifty oaths. […]

” Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) paid the blood-wit himself.” Bushair b. Yasar reported that Sahl b. Abu Hathma said: One camel amongst the camels paid as blood-wit kicked me while I was in the (camel) enclosure.

Allah’s Messenger (may peace be him) did not approve of his blood go waste. He paid blood-wit of one hundred camels of Sadaqa.

By Allah, it is you who have killed him. They said: By Allah, we have not killed him. He then came to his people, and made mention of that to them. Then came he and his brother Huwayyisa, and he was older than he, and ‘Abd al-Rahman b. Sahl. Then Muhayyisa went to speak, and […]

Sulaiman b. Yasar, the freed slave of Maimuna, the wife of Allah’s Apostle (ﷺ), narrated from one of the Ansari Companions of Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) that Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) retained (the practice) of Qasama as it was in the pre-Islamic days.