Muwatta Malik #1686
Blood-Money
Yahya related to me from Malik
that he asked Ibn Shihab about the one-eyed man who gouged out the eye
of a healthy person. Ibn Shihab said, "If the healthy person wants to
take retaliation from him, he can have his retaliation. If he prefers,
he has blood-money of one thousand dinars, twelve thousand dirhams."
Yahya related to me from Malik that he heard that full blood-
money was payable for both of a pair of anything in a man that
occurred in pairs, and the tongue had full blood-money. The ears, when
their hearing departed, had full blood-money, whether or not they were
cut off, and a man's penis had full blood-money and the testicles had
full blood-money.
Yahya related to me from Malik that he
heard that the breasts of a woman had full blood-money.
Malik
said, "The least of that are the eyebrows and a man's breasts."
Malik said, "What is done in our community when a man is injured
in his extremities to an extent that obliges payment of more than the
amount of his full blood-money, is that it is his right. If his hands,
feet, and eyes are all injured, he has three full blood-moneys."
Malik said about the sound eye of a one-eyed man when it is
accidentally gouged out, "The full blood-money is payable for it."
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This hadith is #1686 from Muwatta Malik, in the Book of Blood-Money. Muwatta Malik contains 1,985 hadiths across 61 books.