Hazrat Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) said: There is blood money for the tongue.

It is narrated from Abdullah that if the tongue is uprooted from the root, the blood money will be in five parts, and if it is less than that (i.e., not uprooted from the root), then the blood money will be according to that proportion.

Hazrat Umar bin Abdul Aziz has said that there is full diyah for the tongue, and when the wound of the tongue becomes so severe that speech is impossible, then there will also be full diyah for it.

Ibrahim said that (full blood money is due) for the root of the tongue.

It is also narrated in the same way from Hasan.

Hazrat Zaid bin Thabit said that if the tongue is cut off and then its wound heals, then (the compensation is) twenty camels.

Hazrat Ibn Jurayj said that I asked Ata, "What if the entire tongue is cut off?" He replied, "There will be blood money (diyah)."

Hazrat Amr bin Shu'aib narrates that Hazrat Abu Bakr ruled that if the tongue is cut off from the root, then full blood money (diyah) is due, and if it is cut but the person can still speak, then half blood money is due.

Hazrat Jurayj said that Sulaiman bin Musa stated that it is written in the book of Umar bin Abdul Aziz that if the tongue is cut so much that a person becomes unable to speak, then full blood money (diyah) is due, and if it is cut less than that, then half blood money is due.

Hazrat Ibn Jurayj states that Abdul Aziz bin Umar informed me that it is written in the book of Umar bin Abdul Aziz that it is narrated from Umar that if the tongue is severed from the root, then full blood money (diyah) is due for it, and if the wound on the tongue increases to the extent that it prevents speech, then full diyah is also due for it. For a woman’s tongue as well, full diyah is due, and if the wound on a woman’s tongue increases and prevents her from speaking, then full diyah is also due for it. If the wound is of a lesser degree, then diyah will be given according to its proportion.