And by this chain, from Amir Al-Momineen asws having said: ‘The wergild of the foetus is made to be one hundred Dinars, and the sperm of the man up to the stage it happens to be a foetus is of five segments. So if it was a foetus before the spirit enters into it, is one hundred Dinars, and that is that Allah azwj Mighty and Majestic Created the human being from an extract, and it is the seed. So this is a segment. Then a clot, so it is a segment. Then a lump, so these are three segments. Then bones, so this is a fourth segment. Then flesh grows upon it, so this is where the foetus is complete. So when the five segments are completed for it, it is one hundred Dinars, and the one hundred Dinars is of five segment. So for the seed is made to be one-fifth of the hundred, being twenty Dinars; and for the clot being two-fifths of the hundred, being forty Dinars; and for the lump being three-fifths of the hundred, being sixty Dinars; and for the bones is four-fifths of the hundred, being eighty Dinars. So when the flesh covers it, there would be one hundred Dinars for it, complete. So when another creation prevails in it, and it is the spirit, so this is where there it is a soul, regarding it is a thousand Dinars complete, if it was a male; and if it was a female, so it is five hundred Dinars. So if a woman is killed, and she is pregnant, so it was complete, but it did not miscarry, and it was not know whether it was a male or a female, and it is not know whether it died after her or before her, so its wergild is in two halves, being half the wergild of the male, and half the wergild of the female, and wergild of the woman is complete after that, and that is of six segments from the foetus. And he asws issued a verdict regarding the seed of the man which flows out from his bride, so the water is isolated from her and that is not returned, being half of the fifth of the hundred, being ten Dinars; and when it is poured from her, being twenty Dinars’. And he asws judged regarding wergild of the injuries from the foetus from the accounting of the one hundred based upon what it happens to be, from the injury of the male and the female, the man and the woman (proportion of its completion), and made for it regarding its retaliation of its injuries and its blood relations based upon the measurement of its wergild, and it is one hundred Dinars’.

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Ali Bin Ibrahim, from Muhammad Bin Isa, from Yunus, or someone else, from Ibn Muskan, Abu Abdullah asws has said: ‘Wergild of the foetus is of five segments, one-fifth for the seed being twenty Dinars; and two-fifths for the clot being forty dinars; and three-fifths for the lump, being sixty Dinars; and four-fifths for the bones, being eighty Dinars. So when the foetus is complete, there would be one-hundred Dinars for it. So when the spirit prevails in it, so its wergild would be a thousand Dinars, or ten thousand Dirhams, if it was a male; and if it was a female, so it would be five hundred Dinars. And if the woman is killed and she is pregnant, so it is not know whether her child was a male of a female, so the wergild of the child is in two halves – half the wergild of the male, and half the wergild of the female, and her wergild would be complete’.

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Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Ibn Abu Umeyr, from Muhammad Bin Abu Hamza, from Dawood Bin Farqad, Abu Abdullah asws has said: ‘A woman came across a Bedouin who terrified her, so she miscarried a foetus. So the Bedouin said, ‘I neither scared her nor shouted at her, for the like of it to happen’. So the Prophet saww said: ‘Be silent! The compensation is upon you for surprising her (and) negligence, a servant (male) or a maid (female) (to serve her for life)’.

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Muhammad Bin Yahya, form Ahmad Bin Muhammad Bin Isa, from Ali Bin Al Hakam, from Ali Bin Abu Hamza, from Abu Baseer, Abu Abdullah asws has said: ‘If a man were to strike the belly of a woman, so she miscarries whatever was in her belly as dead, so upon him would be the fine of providing a male or a female servant, and (to be) handing over to her’.

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Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, and Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, both together, from Ibn Mahboub, from Nuaym Bin Ibrahim, from Abu Sayyar, (It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah asws regarding a man who killed a foetus of a slave girl in her belly, (which was) for a people (not belong to him). So he asws said: ‘If it died inside her belly after her having been struck, so upon him is half of the price of his slave girl, and if she had been struck, so it was miscarried alive, so it died (afterwards), so upon him is a tenth of the price of his slave girl’.

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Ibn Mahboub, from Ali Bin Raib, from Abu Ubeyda, (It has been narrated) from Abu Ja’far asws regarding a woman who drank medication and she was pregnant, in order to abort her child. So she miscarried her child (as a result). So he asws said: ‘If it was bones and flesh had grown upon it, and the hearing and the sight had been pierced for it, so upon her is its wergild to be submitted to its father. And if it was a foetus, either a clot or a lump, so upon her would be forty Dinars, a compensation to be submitted to its father’. I said, ‘So she would not be inheriting from her child, from its wergild?’ He asws said: ‘No, because she killed it’.

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Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Al Nowfaly, from Al Sakuny, (It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah asws having said: ‘Rasool-Allah saww judged regarding a foetus of Al-Hilaliya when she was pelted by a rock, so she miscarried what was in her belly, a compensation of a (male) servant, or a (female) servant’.

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Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Ibn Abu Umeyr, from Abdullah Bin Sinan, from man, (The narrator) says, ‘I said to Abu Ja’far asws , ‘The man strikes a woman, so she dropped the seed’. He asws said, ‘Upon him is twenty Dinars. So if it was a clot, so upon him is forty Dinars; and if it was a lump, so upon him is sixty Dinars; and if it was bones, so upon him is the (complete) wergild’.

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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)’.

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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’.

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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’.

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Salih Bin Iqba, from Yunus Al Shaybani who said, ‘I and Abu Shibl were present in the presence of Abu Abdullah asws , so I asked him asws about these questions regarding the wergild. The Abu Shibl asked, and he was speaking intensely about it. So I left him until he grasped it’.

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Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Ibn Abu Umeyr, from Jameel Bin Darraj, from Ubeyd Bin Zurara who said, ‘I said to Abu Abdullah asws , ‘The commencement (of the foetus) happens with eight Dinars, and happens with ten Dinars?’ So he asws said: ‘By fifty’.

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A number of our companions, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad Bin Khalid, from Usman Bin Isa, from Sama’at, (The narrator) says, ‘I asked Abu Abdullah asws about a man who struck his daughter, and she was pregnant. So she dropped a dead (foetus). So the husband of the woman antagonised against him. So the woman said to her husband, ‘If there was a wergild for this aborted (foetus), and for me with regards to it is inheritance, so my inheritance from it is for my father’. So he asws said: ‘It is allowed for her father whatever she gifts for him’.

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Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Ibn Mahboun, from Abdullah Bin Ghalib, from his father, from Saeed Bin Al Musayyab who said, ‘I asked Ali Bin Al-Husayn asws about a man who struck a pregnant woman by his leg, so she dropped what was in her belly, as dead’. So he asws said: ‘So if it was seed, so upon is twenty Dinars’. I said, ‘So what is the limit for the seed?’ So he asws said: ‘It is which, when it fall in the womb, so it rests in it for forty days’. He asws said: ‘And if she dropped it and it was a clot, so upon him is forty Dinars’. I said, ‘So what is the limit of the clot?’ So he asws said: ‘It is which, when it falls in the womb, so it settles in it for eighty days’. He asws said: ‘And if she dropped it, and it was a lump, so upon him is sixty Dinars’. I said, ‘So what is the limit of the lump?’ So he asws said: ‘it is which, when it falls in the womb, so it settles in it for one hundred and twenty days’. He asws said: ‘And if she dropped it, and it is a person for whom is Created the bones, and the flesh, distinguishable limbs, and there has been Blown into it the spirit of the intellect, so upon him is the complete wergild’. I said to him asws , ‘So what is your asws view if it is transforming in her belly to a state, would it be with a sprit, or without a spirit?’ He asws said: ‘With a spirit except for the old life which gets transferred in the loins of the men and the wombs of the women. And if it were not so that there was spirit in it except for the life, it would not have converted from a state after a state, in the womb, and there would not have been a wergild upon the one who kills it, and it would be in that state’.

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Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Ibn Mahboub, from Is’haq Bin Ammar, Abu Abdullah asws has said: ‘The commencement of the foetus increases and (sometimes) it is deficient, but its value is forty Dinars’.

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