Chapter on the Inheritance of the Killer, Who Inherits From Blood Money and Who Does Not
Man Lā Yaḥḍuruh al-Faqīh|Volume 4|Book 1|Chapter 162
Man Lā Yaḥḍuruh al-Faqīh
Volume 4, Book 1, Chapter 162
Chapter on the Inheritance of the Killer, Who Inherits From Blood Money and Who Does Not
وَ رَوَى اَلْحَسَنُ بْنُ مَحْبُوبٍ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ رِئَابٍ عَنْ أَبِي عُبَيْدَةَ قَالَ: سَأَلْتُ أَبَا جَعْفَرٍ عَلَيْهِ اَلسَّلاَمُ عَنِ اِمْرَأَةٍ شَرِبَتْ دَوَاءً عَمْداً وَ هِيَ حَامِلٌ وَ لَمْ تُعْلِمْ بِذَلِكَ زَوْجَهَا فَأَلْقَتْ وَلَدَهَا فَقَالَ "إِنْ كَانَ لَهُ عَظْمٌ قَدْ نَبَتَ عَلَيْهِ اَللَّحْمُ فَعَلَيْهَا دِيَةٌ تُسَلِّمُهَا إِلَى أَبِيهِ وَ إِنْ كَانَ عَلَقَةً أَوْ مُضْغَةً فَإِنَّ عَلَيْهَا أَرْبَعِينَ دِينَاراً أَوْ غُرَّةً تُؤَدِّيهَا إِلَى أَبِيهِ" فَقُلْتُ لَهُ فَهِيَ لاَ تَرِثُ وَلَدَهَا مِنْ دِيَتِهِ مَعَ أَبِيهِ قَالَ "لاَ لِأَنَّهَا قَتَلَتْهُ فَلاَ تَرِثُهُ".
Al-Hasan ibn Mahbub narrated from Ali ibn Ri'ab, from Abu Ubaydah, who said: I asked Abu Jafar Imam Muhammad ibn Ali Al-Baqir عليه السلام about a woman who intentionally drank medicine while she was pregnant without informing her husband, causing her to miscarry his child. Imam عليه السلام said: "If the fetus had developed bones upon which flesh had grown, she must pay the full diyyah (blood money) to the father. However, if it was a clot of blood (alaqah) or a lump of flesh (mudghah), then she must pay forty dinars or provide a compensatory slave (ghurrah) to the father." I then asked: "Does she inherit any share of the blood money for her child along with the father?" Imam عليه السلام replied: "No, because she killed the child, and therefore she does not inherit from it."
- Ṣaḥīḥ al-Faqīh, p. 370