However, they say that if it occurs in a category for which a fixed compensation is prescribed, the assessed compensation must not reach that prescribed amount. Here it falls within a category for which a fixed compensation is prescribed, since most head wounds have a specified compensation. Accordingly, if they determine the assessed compensation to be five camels, we say: We do not award him five camels, because the mūḍiḥah, which is more severe than this, carries five camels. Rather, we award him just under five camels.
For the mūḍiḥah—that which exposes and lays bare the flesh—there are five camels. Then comes the hāshimah, which exposes the bone and fractures it, for which there are ten camels. Then comes the munqilah, which exposes the bone, fractures it, and displaces its bones, for which there are fifteen camels. For each of the maʾmūmah and the dāmighah, one-third of the blood-money is due; and for the jāʾifah, one-third of the blood-money is due.
His statement, “For the mūḍiḥah—that which exposes and lays bare the flesh”: This is how the author, may Allah have mercy on him, stated it. However, it says in al-Rawḍ (1): “The correct wording is: the bone.” Yet they say that transmission is a trust: therefore, transmit the book as it stands, especially when it is in the author’s own handwriting; then point out any error it contains.
Thus, we say here: It is written in the author’s own hand, “that which exposes the flesh,” but this is undoubtedly an error. Perhaps it was a slip of the author’s pen. The correct wording is that it exposes the bone.
It was given this name because it exposes and makes the bone clear. Thus, mūḍiḥah is an adjective qualifying an omitted noun; the intended meaning is: a head wound that exposes the bone.
His statement, “five camels”: If the injury of a mūḍiḥah is accidental, five camels are due: one that is one year old, a second that is two years old, a third that is three years old, a fourth that is four years old, and a fifth—a male offspring of a bint makhāḍ—that is one year old.