Hadith #540
Arabic Text
حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّزَّاقِ أَخْبَرَنَا مَعْمَرٌ عَنِ الزُّهْرِيِّ عَنْ أَبِي سَلَمَةَ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ قَالَ اقْتَتَلَتْ امْرَأَتَانِ مِنْ هُذَيْلٍ فَرَمَتْ إِحْدَاهُمَا الْأُخْرَى بِحَجَرٍ فَأَصَابَتْ بَطْنَهَا فَقَتَلَتْهَا وَأَلْقَتْ جَنِينًا فَقَضَى رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَ
يْهِ وَسَلَّمَ بِدِيَتِهَا عَلَى الْعَاقِلَةِ وَفِي جَنِينِهَا غُرَّةٌ عَبْدٌ أَوْ أَمَةٌ فَقَالَ قَائِلٌ كَيْفَ يُعْقَلُ مَنْ لَا أَكَلَ وَلَا شَرِبَ وَلَا نَطَقَ وَلَا اسْتَهَلَّ فَمِثْلُ ذَلِكَ يُطَلُّ فَقَالَ النَّبِيُّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ كَمَا زَعَمَ أَبُو هُرَيْرَةَ هَذَا مِنْ إِخْوَانِ الْكُهَّانِ
Isnad Chain
عبد الرزاق
معمر
الزهري
أبي سلمة
أبو هريرة
English Translation
It was narrated from Abu Hurayra (رضي الله عنه) — via 'Abd al-Razzaq, from Ma'mar, from al-Zuhri, from Abu Salama — that two women from [the tribe of] Hudhayl fought, and one of them threw a stone at the other and struck her belly, killing her and causing her to miscarry a fetus. the Messenger of Allah ﷺ ruled that her blood money [diya] was upon the 'aqila [the responsible kin-group of the killer], and for the fetus a ghurra — a male or female slave. Someone objected: 'How can blood money be paid for one who did not eat, drink, speak, or cry out [at birth]? Something like this should go unavenged.' the Prophet ﷺ said [to Abu Hurayra]: 'This man is of the brothers of the soothsayers!' [i.e., his rhyming, rhythmic speech resembles the saj' of fortune-tellers].
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Quran References
Reference: Musnad Ahmad, Book 17, Hadith 540
Sunnah.com ref: Musnad Ahmad 7378
Islam.wiki ID: IWH-43768