If the injury is quasi-deliberate or deliberate and retaliation is not chosen, then the camels are apportioned into four age categories, with the fifth taken from the middle category.

His statement, “Then comes the hāshimah: that which exposes the bone and fractures it, for which there are ten camels”: The author stipulated two conditions: exposing the bone and fracturing it. If one fractures it without exposing it, then assessed compensation is due, and it is not deemed a hāshimah. This is because a hāshimah must both expose the bone and fracture it; its compensation is ten camels.

His statement, “Then comes the munqilah: that which exposes the bone, fractures it, and displaces its bones, for which there are fifteen camels”: This is more severe than the preceding injury, and its compensation is fifteen camels. There is a textual report from the Messenger of Allah ﷺ concerning each of these injuries (1).

His statement, “For each of the maʾmūmah and the dāmighah, one-third of the blood-money is due”: The maʾmūmah is that which exposes the bone, fractures and breaks it, displaces its bones, and reaches the membrane surrounding the brain. The membrane surrounding the brain is the covering that contains the brain. Its compensation is one-third of the blood-money, as is authentically reported from the Prophet ﷺ, who said: “For the maʾmūmah, one-third of the blood-money is due” (2).

His statement, “And the dāmighah”: This is that which pierces the membrane of the brain. It is more severe than the maʾmūmah, and one-third of the blood-money is due for it.