Chapter on the Inheritance of the Killer

No share in the estate goes to anyone who unlawfully kills the person from whom he would inherit, or who assists in the killing—even if it is accidental. Thus, the one2 who gives his child a medicinal potion and the child dies, or who disciplines him, performs blood-letting, or lances an abscess, is barred from inheriting.

If a pregnant woman drinks a drug and miscarries, she must pay a ghurrah (the indemnity of one slave) and she receives no inheritance from the miscarried fetus.

By contrast, when the killing is lawful, the killer does inherit—for example, in cases of retaliation (qisas), the execution of a prescribed legal penalty (hadd), or legitimate self-defence. The same rule applies when a rebel kills a combatant from the just side, and vice versa.