18 - Chapter: The blood money (diyah), how much is it?

4541 - Muslim ibn Ibrahim narrated to us (1), Muhammad ibn Rashid narrated to us. And Harun ibn Zayd ibn Abi al-Zarqa' narrated to us, my father narrated to us, Muhammad ibn Rashid narrated to us, from Sulayman ibn Musa, from 'Amr ibn Shu'ayb, from his father, from his grandfather: that the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, ruled that whoever is killed by mistake, his blood money is one hundred camels: thirty bint makhad (female camels in their second year), thirty bint labun (female camels in their third year), thirty hiqqah (female camels in their fourth year), and ten banu labun dhukur (male camels in their third year) (2).

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= Also corroborated by Isma'il ibn Muslim al-Makki, in al-Tabarani's "al-Kabir" (10850), and al-Daraqutni (3136). And Isma'il is weak in hadith.

Also corroborated by al-Hasan ibn 'Imarah in 'Abd al-Razzaq (17203), and al-Hasan ibn 'Imarah is weak.

This hadith will be repeated under number (4591).

(1) The chain of Muslim ibn Ibrahim we have confirmed from (H), and it was indicated that it is in the narration of Ibn al-A'rabi. Al-Mizzi mentioned it in "al-Tuhfah" (8709) and attributed it to Ibn Dasah and Ibn al-A'rabi as well.

(2) A note on Sulayman ibn Musa — he is the Qurashi, al-Umawi, their freed slave, al-Dimashqi, al-Ashdaq — al-Bukhari said: he has rejected narrations (manakir). Abu Ahmad ibn 'Adi said: he narrated hadiths that he alone transmitted, which no one else narrated. Al-Nasa'i said about this hadith: it is a rejected hadith (munkar), and Sulayman ibn Musa is not strong in hadith, nor is Muhammad ibn Rashid. Al-Khattabi said: I do not know of any jurist who adopted this. Al-Bayhaqi said in "Ma'rifat al-Sunan wa al-Athar" (16044): nothing has been added to it to strengthen it.

We say: Muhammad ibn Ishaq corroborated him in Ahmad (7033), but he is a mudallis (one who conceals deficiencies in narration), and he said in it: "and he mentioned 'Amr ibn Shu'ayb." Imam Ahmad said, as transmitted by al-'Ala'i in "Jami' al-Tahsil": when Ibn Ishaq says "and he mentioned," he did not hear it. We say: it is not unlikely that Ibn Ishaq only took it from Sulayman ibn Musa via a man from him, for Ibn Ishaq has a narration from 'Abd al-Rahman ibn al-Harith ibn 'Abd Allah ibn 'Ayyash al-Makhzumi, from Sulayman ibn Musa. =