Umar ruled regarding quasi-deliberate homicide (shibh al-ʿamd): thirty ḥiqqah, thirty jadhaʿah, and forty khalifah — ranging from a thaniyyah to a bāzil in its year. (1)

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(1) Ḥasan. This chain of transmission consists of trustworthy narrators, except that Mujāhid — namely Ibn Jabr al-Makkī — did not hear from ʿUmar. However, something similar has come via another chain that is mursal, which supports it, God willing. Ibn Abī Najīḥ: he is ʿAbdullāh, and Sufyān: he is Ibn ʿUyaynah, and al-Nufaylī: he is ʿAbdullāh ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Nufayl al-Ḥarrānī.

It was also recorded by ʿAbd al-Razzāq (17217), Ibn Abī Shaybah 9/136 via Sufyān al-Thawrī, and al-Bayhaqī 8/69 via Sufyān ibn ʿUyaynah, and ʿAbd al-Razzāq (17217) via Maʿmar — all three of them from Ibn Abī Najīḥ, with this chain.

It was also recorded by Mālik in al-Muwaṭṭaʾ 2/867, and via him al-Shāfiʿī in his Musnad 2/108–109, and ʿAbd al-Razzāq (17782), and al-Bayhaqī 8/38 and 72, from Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd al-Anṣārī, from ʿAmr ibn Shuʿayb: that a man from Banī Mudlij called Qatādah struck his son with a sword and hit his leg, then blood flowed from his wound and he died. Surāqah ibn Juʿshum came to ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb and mentioned that to him. ʿUmar said to him: "Count out for me at the water of Qudayd one hundred and twenty camels until I come to you." When ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb arrived, he took from those camels thirty ḥiqqah, thirty jadhaʿah, and forty khalifah…

Its narrators are trustworthy. It was also narrated as marfūʿ from ʿAmr ibn Shuʿayb from his father from his grandfather, as found in al-Bayhaqī 8/72, but in its chain is Ḥajjāj ibn Arṭāh, who is weak.

Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr said in al-Tamhīd 23/437 after citing this mursal ḥadīth: "This is a well-known ḥadīth among the people of knowledge in the Ḥijāz and Iraq, widely transmitted among them. Its fame, acceptance, and the practice based upon it render it independent of the chain of transmission, to the point that providing a chain for something of this fame would almost be considered superfluous."

Al-khalifah: with fatḥah on the khāʾ and kasrah on the lām — it is the she-camel that is pregnant up to half of its pregnancy term; after that it is called ʿusharāʾ, and its plural is ʿishār.

Bazala al-baʿīr, bazalan, from the pattern of qaʿada: its canine tooth split upon entering its ninth year, so it is bāzil, with the same form used for both masculine and feminine.

Al-thaniyyah: it is the she-camel that has entered its sixth year.