If its mother is a free Muslim woman, her blood-money is fifty camels, and one-tenth of it is five camels.

If she is a Jewish or Christian woman, her blood-money is twenty-five camels, and one-tenth of it is two and a half camels; the half is assessed according to its monetary value.

If she is an unbelieving woman other than a Jew or Christian, her blood-money is four hundred dirhams, and one-tenth of it is forty dirhams.

The evidence for this is the account of the two women of Hudhayl who fought one another. One of them threw a stone at the other, killing her and the child in her womb. The Prophet ﷺ ruled that the blood-money for her fetus was a ghurrah (compensatory payment) (1). A ghurrah is a male or female slave whose value is equivalent to five camels.

The scholars considered its value, because a ghurrah may be worth more or less—especially since some hadith scholars held that the wording, “a male or female slave,” represents uncertainty on the part of the narrator, and that a ghurrah is not restricted to slaves. Rather, it includes anything valuable and desirable among wealth, for the ghurrah of something is its foremost part—such as the beginning of the month, for example, and the ghurrah of a person, meaning his face.

In any case, the Hanbalis hold that the blood-money for a fetus is one-tenth of its mother’s blood-money—that is, five camels—provided that it is not delivered alive and then dies. If it is delivered alive and then dies, its compensation is the full blood-money. But if it dies in her womb and is then delivered, its compensation is one-tenth of its mother’s blood-money: a ghurrah.