Chapter on the Blood Money for the Nutfah (Sperm), Alaqah (Clinging Clot), Mudghah (Embryonic Lump), Bone, and Fetus
Man Lā Yaḥḍuruh al-Faqīh|Volume 4|Book 1|Chapter 35
Man Lā Yaḥḍuruh al-Faqīh
Volume 4, Book 1, Chapter 35
Chapter on the Blood Money for the Nutfah (Sperm), Alaqah (Clinging Clot), Mudghah (Embryonic Lump), Bone, and Fetus
وَ رَوَى اَلْحَسَنُ بْنُ مَحْبُوبٍ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ رِئَابٍ عَنْ أَبِي عُبَيْدَةَ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اَللَّهِ عَلَيْهِ اَلسَّلاَمُ: فِي اِمْرَأَةٍ شَرِبَتْ دَوَاءً وَ هِيَ حَامِلٌ لِتَطْرَحَ وَلَدَهَا فَأَلْقَتْ وَلَدَهَا قَالَ "إِنْ كَانَ لَهُ عَظْمٌ قَدْ نَبَتَ عَلَيْهِ اَللَّحْمُ وَ شُقَّ لَهُ اَلسَّمْعُ وَ اَلْبَصَرُ فَإِنَّ عَلَيْهَا دِيَةً تُسَلِّمُهَا إِلَى أَبِيهِ" قَالَ "وَ إِنْ كَانَ عَلَقَةً أَوْ مُضْغَةً فَإِنَّ عَلَيْهَا أَرْبَعِينَ دِينَاراً أَوْ غُرَّةً تُسَلِّمُهَا إِلَى أَبِيهِ" قُلْتُ فَهِيَ لاَ تَرِثُ مِنْ وَلَدِهَا مِنْ دِيَتِهِ قَالَ "لاَ لِأَنَّهَا قَتَلَتْهُ".
In the narration by Al-Hasan ibn Mahbub from Ali ibn Riʾab from Abu Ubaydah from Abu Abdullah عليه السلام regarding a woman who drank medicine while she was pregnant to abort her child and then miscarried. Imam عليه السلام said: "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 عليه السلام 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 عليه السلام replied: "No, because she killed the child."
- Ṣaḥīḥ al-Faqīh, p. 331