It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Hurairah (may Allah be pleased with him) that two women from the tribe of Huzail fought, and one struck the other with a stone, causing her death and also the death of what was in her womb. The heirs of the slain woman brought this dispute to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), so he ruled that for the fetus (the unborn child) there should be a slave man or woman as compensation, and he placed the blood money for the slain woman upon the relatives of the killer, and made the heirs of the slain woman—her children, husband, etc.—the recipients of this blood money. At that time, Haml bin Nabhigah Huzali said: O Messenger of Allah! How can we pay compensation for a child who neither drank nor ate, neither spoke nor cried? Such a ruling is not valid. The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said:“He seems to be one of the brothers of soothsayers, for he has rhymed like the soothsayers.”