and for the two breasts of a woman, the full blood-money is due. For any one of these paired organs taken alone, one-half of the blood-money is payable. For the eyelashes of both eyes the full blood-money is required, while for the eyelashes of a single eye the liability is one-quarter of the blood-money. Every finger of the hands or the feet carries one-tenth of the blood-money, all fingers being treated alike. A finger made up of three phalanges carries one-third of the finger’s blood-money for each phalanx; if the finger has only two phalanges, each of them carries one-half of the finger’s blood-money. For every tooth the compensation is five camels, with no distinction between front teeth and molars.
Whoever strikes a limb and thereby destroys its function owes a full blood-money, exactly as though he had amputated it—for example, a hand that is left paralysed or an eye whose sight is lost.
Head-wounds (shujāj) are ten in number: the ḥārisah, the dāmiʿah, the dāmiyah, the bāḍiʿah, the mutalāḥimah, the samḥāq, the muḍīḥah, the hāshimah, the munqilah, and the ʿammah. In the muḍīḥah retaliation (qiṣāṣ) is taken if the wound was inflicted deliberately; in the remaining wounds there is no retaliation. Anything less than a muḍīḥah is assessed by an equitable valuation (ḥukūmat ʿadl).
If a muḍīḥah is caused unintentionally, the due is one-twentieth of the blood-money; for the hāshimah it is one-tenth; for the munqilah one and a half tenths; for the ʿammah one-third; and for the jāʾifah (a penetrating wound to a body cavity) one-third of the blood-money.
Should the wound pass right through so that it exits on the other side, it counts as two jāʾifah wounds, and two-thirds of the blood-money is required. For all the fingers of a single hand injured together, one-half of the blood-money is payable; if they are severed together with the palm, the full blood-money is owed. If they are taken along with half the forearm, the palm is valued at half the blood-money and the surplus is fixed by an equitable assessment. An extra finger is likewise compensated by equitable assessment.
With regard to the eye, penis or tongue of a young child whose soundness cannot yet be verified, the amount is set by equitable assessment. If someone inflicts a muḍīḥah on a man and, as a result, the man loses his intellect or the hair of his head, the compensation for the muḍīḥah is subsumed within the blood-money. If, however, he loses his hearing, his sight or his power of speech, the indemnity for the muḍīḥah is added to the full blood-money.
If a person cuts off one of a man’s fingers and another finger next to it becomes paralysed, compensation is due for both, but—according to Abū Ḥanīfa—there is no retaliation. Should someone extract a man’s tooth and another tooth grows in its place, the indemnity is cancelled.