—provided that the original wounds have not yet healed, according to the sound view. If the throat-cutting is intentional while the earlier injuries were accidental, or vice-versa, the diyahs do not merge on the preponderant opinion; and if a different person does the cutting, separate diyahs are incurred.

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The ḥukūmah is obligatory for every injury to which the Law assigns no fixed amount. It is a fraction whose ratio is measured against the diyah of a human life; another view makes the reference point the diyah of the injured limb, the fraction corresponding to the reduction in value the person would suffer were he a slave of the same description.

If the injury affects a limb for which a fixed diyah is prescribed, the ḥukūmah must not reach that set amount; should it do so, the judge reduces it slightly by discretionary judgment. Where the injury is to a part with no predetermined diyah, such as the thigh, the ḥukūmah may never equal the diyah of an entire person. The valuation is made after the wound has healed; if no defect remains, the nearest degree of impairment prior to healing is taken as the basis. Another opinion leaves the matter entirely to the judge’s ijtihād, while yet another holds that no compensation is due at all.

For a wound that already carries a fixed diyah—such as a muzḥiḥah (a head wound that exposes bone)—any surrounding disfigurement is subsumed under that diyah, whereas a wound with no fixed amount is, according to the sound position, compensated separately by ḥukūmah.

The diyah for killing a slave is his market value. For lesser injuries, if the same injury has no fixed amount for a free person, the payment is the actual reduction in the slave’s price; if a fixed amount does exist, the payment is the corresponding proportion of his value. Another opinion always uses the actual diminution in price. Even when the injury removes his penis and testicles, the preferred view requires two distinct valuations, while the second view limits liability to whatever decrease in price results; if his price is unaffected, nothing is owed.