It is narrated from Ibn Shihab that Sayyiduna Umar, may Allah be pleased with him, called the people in Mina and said: Whoever knows the matter of blood money should state it to me. So, Dahhak bin Sufyan Kalabi stood up and said: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, wrote to me that I should give inheritance to the woman of Ashim Dhababi from the blood money of Ashim. Sayyiduna Umar, may Allah be pleased with him, said: Go to the tent until I come. When Sayyiduna Umar, may Allah be pleased with him, came, Dahhak stated the same thing. Sayyiduna Umar, may Allah be pleased with him, gave the same order. Ibn Shihab said that Ashim was killed by mistake.

It is narrated from Amr bin Shu'aib that a man from Banu Mudlij, whose name was Qatadah, struck his son with a sword. It hit his shin, the bleeding did not stop, and eventually he died. So Suraqah bin Ja'sham came to Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) and informed him about it. Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "Keep ready one hundred and twenty camels at the water of Qudayd (Qudayd is a place between Makkah and Madinah, where there is also water) until I come there." When Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) arrived there, he took thirty hiqqahs and thirty jaz'ahs from those camels, and forty khalifahs (pregnant she-camels), then said: "Where is the brother of the murdered man?" He said: "Why, I am present." He said: "Take all these camels, because the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: 'The killer does not inherit.'"

Hazrat Saeed bin Musayyib and Sulaiman bin Yasar were asked: If someone commits murder in the sacred months (Muharram, Rajab, Dhu al-Qa'dah, and Dhu al-Hijjah), will you make the blood money stricter? They replied: No, rather we will increase it, due to the sanctity of these months. Then Saeed was asked: If someone injures another in these months, will you also increase the blood money for that, just as you increase it for murder? Saeed replied: Yes.

Imam Malik, may Allah have mercy on him, said: I think that what is meant by the increase by those two persons is the same as what Sayyiduna Umar, may Allah be pleased with him, did in the blood money of the Mudliji, when he killed his son.

It is narrated from Urwah bin Zubair that there was a man from the Ansar whose name was Uhayhah bin Julah, and he had a younger paternal uncle who was staying with his maternal relatives. Uhayhah took him and killed him. The people of his maternal relatives said: We raised him, nurtured him, and when he grew up, his nephew overpowered us and took him away. Urwah said: For this reason (now in Islam) the killer does not inherit from the murdered person.

Imam Malik, may Allah have mercy on him, said: In our view, there is no difference of opinion in this that the one who commits intentional murder does not inherit the blood money (diyah) of the murdered person, nor his wealth, nor can he deprive any heir. And the one who commits accidental killing does not inherit the blood money, but whether he inherits the rest of the wealth or not, there is a difference of opinion in this. In my view, he will inherit the rest of the wealth.