Rabee’ah bin Abi Abdur Rahman says: I asked Sa’eed bin Al-Musayyib,“What is the compensation for a woman’s finger?”He said,“Ten camels.”I said,“For two fingers?”He said,“Twenty camels.”I said,“For three fingers?”He said,“Thirty camels.”I said,“For four fingers?”He said,“Twenty camels.”I said,“How strange! When the wound increases and the loss is greater, the compensation becomes less.”Sa’eed said,“Are you an Iraqi?”I said,“No, rather I am firm upon what I know, and I ask about what I do not know.”Sa’eed said,“This is how it is in the Sunnah, O son of my brother.”

Imam Malik, may Allah have mercy on him, said: According to us, this ruling is by consensus, that when all the fingers of a hand are cut off, full compensation (diyah) is due, calculated as ten camels for each finger, so fifty camels in total. And if the palm is also cut off, then it is to be given according to the judge’s opinion. In terms of dinars, for each finger it is one hundred dinars, and for each phalange it is thirty-three (33) dinars, and for each phalange it is three and one-third camels.

Malik said: The practice among us regarding the fingers of the hand is that if they are cut off, their full compensation is due. That is because if all five fingers are cut off, their compensation is the compensation for the whole hand: fifty camels. For each finger, ten camels. Malik said: And the calculation for the fingers is thirty-three dinars and one third of a dinar for each phalange, and from the camels, it is three full shares and one third of a share.

Sayyiduna Umar bin Khattab (may Allah be pleased with him) ordered one camel for a molar tooth, one camel for a collarbone, and one camel for a rib bone.

Said ibn al-Musayyib said: Sayyiduna Umar ibn al-Khattab (may Allah be pleased with him) ordered one camel for each molar, and Sayyiduna Muawiyah (may Allah be pleased with him) ordered five camels for each molar. So Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) reduced the blood money, and Sayyiduna Muawiyah (may Allah be pleased with him) increased it. If it were up to me, I would have given two camels for each molar; in this way, the blood money would be completed.

Hazrat Saeed bin Musayyib used to say that when a tooth is struck and it turns black, the full compensation (diyah) will be obligatory; if it turns black and then falls out, even then the full compensation will be obligatory.

It is narrated from Abu Ghatfan bin Tarif that Marwan bin Hakam sent him to Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) to ask what is the compensation (diyah) for a molar tooth. Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) said: It is five camels. Marwan then sent him again and asked: Are the front teeth and the molars equal in compensation? Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) said: If you had compared the teeth to the fingers, it would have been sufficient; the compensation for each finger is the same (even though the benefit of some is less and some is more, likewise, all teeth and molars are equal).

Hazrat Urwah bin Zubair used to say that in earlier times, the blood money for all teeth was equal; none was greater than the other.

Imam Malik, may Allah have mercy on him, said: In our view, the ruling is that the teeth, the canine teeth, and the molars are all equal, because the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, prescribed five camels for each tooth; the molar is also a tooth.

Saeed bin Musayyib and Sulaiman bin Yasar used to say that for a slave’s *mudihah* (wound exposing the bone), one must pay one-twentieth of his value.

Marwan bin Hakam used to rule that if a person injured a slave, he should pay the amount by which the value of the slave decreased due to that injury.