Hadith record

Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad and Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, both together from Ibn Mahboub, from Hishan Bin Salim, from Ziyad Bin Sowqat, from Al Hakam Bin Uteyba who said, ‘I said to Abu Ja’far asws , ‘May Allah azwj Keep you asws well! Some of the people have thirty two teeth in their mouths, and for some of them are twenty eight teeth. So upon how much would be the distribution of wergild of the teeth?’ So he asws said: ‘The creation, rather, it is of twenty eight teeth – twelve in the front of the mouth, and sixteen at the end of it. So it is upon this that the wergild of the teeth would be distributed. Ransom of every tooth from the front, when it breaks until it is gone, is of five hundred Dirhams, the ransom of all of these being six thousand Dirhams. And regarding every tooth from the back when it breaks until it is gone, so its wergild is two hundred and fifty Dirhams, and these are sixteen teeth, all of it being four thousand Dirhams. So the entire wergild of the front and the back from the teeth is of ten thousand Dirhams. But rather, the wergild would be placed upon this, so whatever increased upon twenty eight teeth, so there is no wergild for it, and whatever is deficient, so there is no wergild for it. This is how we asws found it to be in the Book of Ali asws He (the narrator) said, ‘So Al-Hakam said, ‘So I said, ‘But rather, the wergilds used to be taken before today, from the camels, and the cows, and the sheep’. So he asws said: ‘But rather that used to be in the villages, before Al-Islam. So when Al-Islam appeared, and the currency became abundant among the people, so Amir Al-Momineen asws named it upon the currency’. Al-Hakam said, ‘So I said to him asws , ‘What is your asws view of the one who was from the people of the villages today. What is that which would be taken from him regarding the wergild today, camels or currency?’ So he asws said: ‘The camels, today are like the currency. But it is preferable than the currency regarding the wergild. It used to be taken from them, regarding the wergild of the erroneous (killing), one hundred from the camels by the reckoning of every camel being one hundred Dirhams. So that is ten thousand Dirhams’. I said to him asws , ‘So what are the ages of the one hundred camels?’ So he asws said: ‘Whatever a year has passed upon, males, all of them’.

Translation: HubeAli — attributed by Thaqalayn·The Arabic above is the original.