Legal Punishments, Retaliation & Blood Money

Sunan Abi Dawud

Types of Blood-Wit (Kitab Al-Diyat)

A girl was found with her head crushed between two stones. She was asked: Who has done this to you ? Is it so and so ? Is it so and so, until a Jew was named, and she gave...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Types of Blood-Wit (Kitab Al-Diyat)

A Jew killed a girl of the Ansar for her ornaments. He then threw her in a well, and crushed her head with stones. He was then arrested and brought to the Prophet (ﷺ). He ordered regarding him that he...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Types of Blood-Wit (Kitab Al-Diyat)

A girl was wearing silver ornaments. A Jew crushed her head with a stone. The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) entered upon her when she had some breath. He said to her: Who has killed you ? Had so and so...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Types of Blood-Wit (Kitab Al-Diyat)

I and Ashtar went to Ali and said to him: Did the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) give you any instruction about anything for which he did not give any instruction to the people in general? He said: No, except what...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Types of Blood-Wit (Kitab Al-Diyat)

On his father's authority, said that his grandfather reported the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said, mentioning the tradition similar to the one transmitted by Ali. This version adds: The most distant of them gives protection as from all, those who...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Types of Blood-Wit (Kitab Al-Diyat)

That Sa'd b. 'Ubadah said: Messenger of Allah! If a man finds a man with his wife, should he kill him ? The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: No. Sa'd : Why not, by Him who has honoured you with...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Types of Blood-Wit (Kitab Al-Diyat)

That Sa'd b. 'Ubadah said to the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) : What do you think if I find with my wife a man ; should I give him some time until I bring four witnesses ?" He said: "Yes".

Sunan Abi Dawud

Types of Blood-Wit (Kitab Al-Diyat)

The Prophet (ﷺ) sent AbuJahm ibn Hudhayfah as a collector of zakat. A man quarrelled with him about his sadaqah (i.e. zakat), and AbuJahm struck him and wounded his head. His people came to the Prophet (ﷺ) and said: Revenge,...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Types of Blood-Wit (Kitab Al-Diyat)

A girl was found with her head crushed between two stoned. She was asked: Who did it with you ? Was it so and so ? Was it so and so ? Until the Jew was named. Thereupon she gave...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Types of Blood-Wit (Kitab Al-Diyat)

When the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) was distributing something, a man came towards him and bent down on him. The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) struck him with a bough and his face was wounded. The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Types of Blood-Wit (Kitab Al-Diyat)

'Umar b. al-Khattab (ra) addressed us and said: I did not send my collectors (of zakat) so that they strike your bodies and that they take your property. If that is done with someone and he appeals to me, I...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Types of Blood-Wit (Kitab Al-Diyat)

The Prophet (ﷺ) Said: The disputants should refrain from taking retaliation. The one who is nearer should forgive first and then the one who is next to him, even if (the one who forgives) were a woman. Abu Dawud said:...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Types of Blood-Wit (Kitab Al-Diyat)

If anyone is killed. Ibn 'Ubaid in his version said: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: If anyone is killed in error (blindly) when people are throwing stones, or by beating with whips, or striking with a stick, it is...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Types of Blood-Wit (Kitab Al-Diyat)

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) as saying: He then mentioned the rest of the tradition to the same effect as mentioned by Sufyan.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Types of Blood-Wit (Kitab Al-Diyat)

On his father's authority, said that his grandfather reported the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) gave judgment that if anyone is killed accidentally, his blood-wit should be one hundred camels: thirty she-camels which had entered their second year, thirty she-camels which...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Types of Blood-Wit (Kitab Al-Diyat)

On his father's authority, said that his grandfather reported that the value of the blood-money at the time of the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) was eight hundred dinars or eight thousand dirhams, and the blood-money for the people of the...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Types of Blood-Wit (Kitab Al-Diyat)

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) gave judgment that blood-wit for those who possessed camels should be one hundred camels, and for those who possessed cattle two hundred cows, and for those who possessed sheep one thousand sheep, and for those...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Types of Blood-Wit (Kitab Al-Diyat)

I read out to Sa'id b. Ya'qub al-Taliqini who said: Abu Tumailah transmitted to us, saying: Muhammad b. Ishaq transmitted to us saying: 'Ata reported Jabir b. 'Abd Allah as saying: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) fixed; and he mentioned...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Types of Blood-Wit (Kitab Al-Diyat)

The Prophet (ﷺ) said: The blood-wit for accidental killing should be twenty she-camels which had entered their fourth year, twenty she-camels which had entered their fifth year, twenty she-camels which had entered their second year, twenty she-camels which had entered...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Types of Blood-Wit (Kitab Al-Diyat)

A man of Banu Adi was killed. The Prophet (ﷺ) fixed his blood-wit at the rate of twelve thousand (dirhams). Abu Dawud said: Ibn 'Uyainah transmitted it from 'Amr, from 'Ikrimah, from the Prophet (ﷺ), and he did not mention...