Chapter on the Blood Money for the Nutfah (sperm), Alaqah (clinging clot), Mudghah (embryonic lump), Bone, and Fetus

"Indeed, for the sperm-drop (nutfah) there is a compensation of twenty dinars, for the clot (Alaqah) forty dinars, for the lump of flesh (muḍghah) sixty dinars, for the bone (Aẓm) eighty dinars, and when it is clothed with flesh, it is one hundred dinars. Then it remains one hundred until it lets out a cry (at birth), and when it lets out a cry, the full blood money (diyyah) becomes due."

I asked Abu Abdullah (as): "What if a drop of blood appears in the sperm-drop (nutfah)?" Imam (as) replied: "For a single drop, it is one-tenth of the compensation for the nutfah, which is twenty-two dinars." I asked: "What if there are two drops?" Imam (as) said: "Then it is twenty-four dinars." I asked: "What if there are three drops?" Imam (as) said: "Then it is twenty-six dinars." I asked: "And four drops?" Imam (as) said: "Then twenty-eight dinars. And for five drops, it is thirty dinars." Imam (as) continued: "If it exceeds half of the sperm, then the compensation is calculated accordingly until it becomes a clot ('alaqah). When it reaches the stage of a clot, the compensation is forty dinars."

I was present with Yunus Al-Shaybani while Abu Abdullah (as) was informing him about blood money (diyat). I asked Imam (as): "What if the sperm-drop (nutfah) came out mixed with blood?" Imam (as) replied: "If it has clotted and the blood is pure, then it is forty dinars. But if it is black blood, then there is nothing upon him except disciplinary punishment (taʿzir), because pure blood is for the child, while black blood is from within the body." Abu Shibl asked: "What if the clot (Alaqah) has a vein-like piece of flesh in it?" Imam (as) replied: "It is forty-two dinars, with one-tenth of it." I asked: "Is one-tenth of forty not four?" Imam (as) said: "It is one-tenth of the muḍghah (chewed-like substance) because only one-tenth of it was lost. As it grows, the amount increases until it reaches sixty." I asked: "I saw in the muḍghah something like a solid bone knot." Imam (as) said: "That is the bone, which initially starts with four dinars. If it increases, then add four more until it completes eighty dinars. Similarly, when the bone is covered with flesh, it follows the same ruling." I asked: "If a woman was struck, causing the fetus to miscarry and it is not known whether the fetus was alive or not?" Imam (as) replied: "Far from it, O' Abu Shibl! Once five months have passed, life has been instilled in it, and full blood money (diyyah) becomes obligatory."

A woman came forward to complain about a Bedouin who had frightened her, causing her to miscarry her fetus. The Bedouin argued: "It neither cried out nor made any sound, and something like this is simply wasted (i.e., not compensated)." The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him and his family) said to him: "Be quiet!, O' rhyming speaker! Upon you is a ghurrah (compensation for a miscarried fetus) - either a male or female slave."

Hadith.5320 - In the narration of Jamil ibn Darraj from Ubayd ibn Zurarah, he said: I asked Abu Abdullah (as): "The ghurra (compensation for a miscarried fetus) is sometimes valued at one hundred dinars and sometimes at ten dinars." Imam (as) replied: "It is fifty."

"If the fetus had developed bones covered with flesh and its hearing and sight had been formed, then she must pay the full blood money (diyyah) and hand it over to the child's father." Imam (as) further said: "If it was still in the stage of a clot (Alaqah) or a piece of flesh (muḍghah), then she must pay forty dinars or provide a ghurra (compensation), handing it over to the father." I asked: "Does she inherit anything from her child's blood money?" Imam (as) replied: "No, because she killed the child."

"If the fetus died in her womb after he struck her, then he must pay half of one-tenth of the value of the female slave. However, if he struck her and she miscarried the fetus alive and then it died, he must pay one-tenth of the value of the female slave."

Hadith.5323 - Samaah asked Abu Abdullah (as) about a man who struck his pregnant daughter, causing her to miscarry a stillborn child. The woman's husband sought legal action against her father. The woman said to her husband, "If this fetus has a diyyah (blood money), and I am entitled to an inheritance from it, then I give my share of the inheritance to my father." Imam (as) responded: "It is permissible for her father to receive what she has gifted to him."

I asked Abu Al-Hasan (as) about a thief who entered upon a pregnant woman, assaulted her, and caused her to miscarry. The woman then attacked the thief and killed him. Imam (as) replied: "The blood of the thief is not avenged (yutallu), but the diyyah (blood money) for her miscarried fetus is due upon her."