Hazrat Abu Huraira narrates that the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, gave the verdict of a slave or a slave-girl in the case of a child in a woman's womb being miscarried: The person against whom the verdict was given said, "Will compensation be given for one who neither drank nor ate, nor did he cry out loudly? Is such blood not wasted?" Upon this, the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said: "Indeed, this person is speaking like a poet. In any case, in the event of causing the death of a child in the womb, giving a ghurra, that is, a slave or a slave-girl, is obligatory."