الكافي- ط الاسلامية, volume 7, page 345

Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Muhammad Bin Al Husayn, from Muhammad Bin Ismail, from Salih Bin Uqba, from Suleyman Bin Salih, (It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah asws regarding the seed being twenty Dinars, and regarding the clot being forty Dinars, and regarding the lump being sixty Dinars, and regarding the bones being eighty Dinars. So when the flesh covers it, so it is a hundred Dinars. Then it is its wergild until it commences (living). So when it commences, so it is the complete wergild (a thousand Dinars)’.

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

Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad Bin Isa, from Ibn Mahboub, from Abu Ayoub Al Khazaz, from Muhammad Bin Muslim who said, ‘I asked Abu Ja’far asws about the man who struck the woman, so she dropped the seed. So he asws said: ‘Upon him is twenty Dinars’. So I said, ‘He hits her and she drops the clot?’ So he asws said: ‘Upon him is forty Dinars’. I said, ‘So he hits her, and she drops the lump?’ He asws said: ‘Upon his is sixty Dinars’. I said, ‘So he hits her, she drops it, and bones had occurred upon it?’ So he asws said: ‘Upon him is the complete wergild, and it is by this that Amir Al-Momineen asws judged’. I said, ‘So what is the description of the creation of the seed which it is recognised by?’ So he asws said: ‘The seed happens to be white, like the thick phlegm. So it remains in the womb. When forty days pass over it, then it becomes a clot’. I said, ‘So what is the description of the creation of the clot which it is recognised by?’ So he asws said: ‘It is a clot like the clot of the coagulated blood, solidified, remaining in the womb after its conversion from the seed, for forty days, then it becomes a lump’. I said, ‘So what is the description of the lump and its creation which it is recognised by?’ He asws said: ‘It is a lump of red flesh in which are green veins, entangled. Then it becomes bones’. I said, ‘So what is the description of its creation when it was bones?’ So he asws said: ‘When it was bones, there are formed limbs for it, the hearing, and the sight, and arrangement of its limbs. So when it was like that, so regarding it is the complete wergild’.

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

Salih Bin Uqba, from Yunus Al Shaybani who said, ‘I said to Abu Abdullah asws , ‘Suppose a drop of blood comes out in the seed?’ He asws said: ‘The drop is a tenth of the seed, regarding it is twenty two Dinars’. I said, ‘So if the drop are two drops?’ He asws said: ‘Twenty four Dinars’. I said, ‘So if there are three drops?’ He asws said: ‘Twenty-six Dinars’. I said, ‘So, four?’ He asws said: ‘Twenty-eight Dinars; and regarding five is thirty Dinars; and whatever increases upon the half. So it would be based upon the accounting of that until it becomes a clot. So when it becomes a clot, so with regards to it is forty (Dinars)’. So Abu Shibl asked him asws , and Abu Shibl informed us saying, ‘Yunus was present and Abu Abdullah asws informed him with the wergilds. I said, ‘So if the seed comes out submerged in the blood?’ So he asws said to me: ‘So it has clotted, if it was clear blood. Therefore with regards to it is forty Dinars; and if it was black blood, so there is nothing upon it except for the reprimanding, because whatever was from clear blood, so that is for the child, and whatever was from the black blood, so that is from the inside’. Abu Shibl said, ‘So if the clot is such that there happen to be in it resembling the veins from the flesh?’ He asws said: ‘Forty-two and the one-tenth’. I said, ‘So if the tenth is forty-four?’ So he asws said: ‘No! But rather, it is a tenth of the lump, because its one-tenth has gone. So whatever is increased, it increased until it reaches the sixty’. I said, ‘So what is your asws view regarding the lump with nodes resembling the dry bones?’ He asws said: ‘So that is the bone. It is like that in the beginning, what is the beginning of (the formation of) the bones, by five months. Therefore, with regards to it is forty Dinars. So if it is additional, so it increases by four, four, until it is completed at eighty’. I said, ‘And similar to that when the bones attain flesh?’ He asws said: ‘It is like that’. I said, ‘So when she is punched (in the belly) and the child is dropped, and it is not known whether it was alive, or not?’ He asws said: ‘Far be it! O Abu Shibl, when five months elapse, so the life has come into it, and the wergild is Obligated’.

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