Chapter on the Inheritance of the Fetus, the Newborn, and the Stillborn

Hadith.5661 - Hariz narrated from Al-Fudayl who said: Al-Hakam ibn Utaibah asked Abu Jafar Imam Muhammad ibn Ali Al-Baqir (as) about a child who is born from his mother without letting out a cry - does he inherit? Imam (as) turned away from him. When he repeated the question, Imam (as) said: "If the child moves with clear movement, he inherits, for it is possible that he may be mute."

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Hadith.5662 - Al-Hasan ibn Mahbub narrated from Hammad ibn Isa, from Sawwar, from Al-Hasan, who said: 'When Imam Ali ibn Abi Talib (as) defeated Talhah and Al-Zubayr, the people fled in retreat. As they were fleeing, they passed by a pregnant woman on the roadside. She was frightened by them and miscarried her child, who was born alive but convulsed until he died. The woman herself also passed away shortly after. Imam Ali ibn Abi Talib (as) and his companions passed by her as she lay there with her child on the road. Imam (as) asked them about her situation, and they told him that she was pregnant and had been terrified when she saw the battle and the retreat. Imam Ali ibn Abi Talib (as) asked them: "Which of the two died first?" They replied: "Her child died before her." Imam Ali ibn Abi Talib (as) then summoned her husband, the father of the deceased child, and allotted him two-thirds of the blood money (diyyah) for his son and gave the mother of the deceased child one-third of the diyyah. Then, he granted the husband half of the diyyah that his wife had inherited from their deceased son, and the remaining portion was given to the relatives of the deceased woman. Imam Ali ibn Abi Talib (as) also allotted the husband half of the diyyah for his deceased wife, amounting to two thousand five hundred dirhams, because she had no child other than the one she miscarried due to her fright. The remaining portion of the diyyah was given to the relatives of the deceased woman. Imam Ali ibn Abi Talib (as) ordered that all of this compensation be paid from the treasury of Basra.

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