As for these first five kinds of head-and-face wounds, the Lawgiver has not set a specific amount of blood-money for them. Instead, they are compensated by a discretionary assessment (ḥukūmah) whose value the judge determines through ijtihād.
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al-Muḍīḥah (bone-revealing wound): a wound that lays the bone bare. Its indemnity is five camels, in accordance with the document of ʿAmr b. Ḥazm: “For an al-Muḍīḥah, five camels.”
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al-Hāshima (bone-crushing wound): a wound that both exposes and pulverizes the bone, i.e., fractures it. The compensation is ten camels. This is narrated from Zayd b. Thābit (Allah be pleased with him), and none of the Companions of his era is known to have disagreed with him.
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al-Manqilah (bone-displacing wound): a wound that exposes and crushes the bone and displaces its fragments so they must be reset before healing. Its indemnity is fifteen camels, as stated in the letter the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) dictated for ʿAmr b. Ḥazm: “For an al-Manqilah, fifteen camels.”
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al-Maʾmūmah (meningeal wound): a wound that reaches the umm al-dimāgh, that is, the membrane covering the brain.
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al-Dāmighah (brain-piercing wound): a wound that perforates that membrane.
Each of these two wounds—the Maʾmūmah and the Dāmighah—requires one-third of the full blood-money, as established in the hadith of ʿAmr b. Ḥazm: “For a Maʾmūmah, one-third of the blood-money.” The Dāmighah is even more severe and therefore, a fortiori, entitled to at least the same amount. In most cases the victim does not survive such a blow, which may explain why no distinct valuation has been transmitted for it.