—ruled, in the case of the milṭāh—which is the simḥāq (a superficial wound)—that it carries half of the indemnity prescribed for the muḍiḥah (the bone-exposing wound).
ʿAbd al-Razzāq said: “After that Sufyān came to us, so we questioned him, and he related it to us from Mālik. Later I met Mālik and said, ‘Sufyān has narrated to us from you, through Ibn Qusayṭ, from Ibn al-Musayyib, that ʿUmar and ʿUthmān ruled concerning the milṭāh that its compensation is half of the muḍiḥah—is that correct?’
He replied, ‘He has spoken the truth; I did report that to him.’
I said, ‘Relate it to me.’
He said, ‘I will not relate it today.’ (1)
Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Munʿim informed us; Muḥammad ibn Saʿīd likewise, as did ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad and a group. They said:
Al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Mubārak informed us; they both said:
Abū Zurʿah informed us; Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Sāwī (2) informed us; Abū Bakr al-Ḥīrī narrated to us; Abū al-ʿAbbās al-Aṣamm narrated to us; al-Rabīʿ ibn Sulaymān narrated to us; al-Shāfiʿī narrated to us; Saʿīd ibn Sālim narrated to us, from Ibn Jurayj, from Sufyān, from Mālik, with similar wording.
This isnād is ʿazīz (rare); al-Shāfiʿī appears far down the chain, in pursuit of knowledge.
Al-Ḥākim said: Abū Jaʿfar Aḥmad ibn ʿUbayd the ḥāfiẓ informed us; Muḥammad ibn al-Ḍaḥḥāk ibn ʿAmr narrated to us; ʿImrān ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥīm narrated to us; Bakkār ibn al-Ḥasan narrated to us; Ismāʿīl ibn Ḥammād ibn Abī Ḥanīfah narrated to us, from his father, from Abū Ḥanīfah, from Mālik, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Faḍl, from Nāfiʿ ibn Jubayr, from Ibn ʿAbbās, who said: