In another wording recorded by al-Bukhārī on the authority of Abū Hurayrah, the Messenger of Allah ﷺ ruled that for the fetus of a woman from Banū Lihyān the compensation is a ghurrah—a male or female slave. Later the woman who had caused the death passed away, whereupon the Messenger of Allah ﷺ decreed that her estate should go to her children and her husband, while the blood money was to be borne by her ʿāqilah (agnatic relatives).

• Vocabulary of the ḥadīth:

• Hudhayl: Hudhayl ibn Mudrika, an Adnānī tribe that still lives on the eastern and southern outskirts of Mecca. The inhabitants of Wādī Nuʿmān and its environs are all from Hudhayl, and among Hudhayl is the clan of Lihyān, now settled on the northern outskirts of Mecca.
• janīnihā: the fetus carried by a pregnant woman. The root j-n-n denotes concealment and hiding.
• ghurrah: with a damma on the ghayn and a shadda on the rāʾ, feminine in form. Literally the white blaze on a horse’s forehead, considered its most prized feature. Here it refers to a human slave, for Allah created man in the best of forms.
• walīdah: a young female slave; plural: walāʾid.
• ʿāqilata-hā: an adjective describing an omitted noun, meaning “the responsible agnatic group.” The verb ʿaqala al-qatīl means “to pay the blood money.” It derives from ʿaql, “to restrain,” because the ʿāqilah restrain the killer by assuming the payment on his behalf. The ʿaql is the diyah (blood money).
  Legal definition: those male agnates who pay one-third of the diyah or more for a killing committed by mistake or quasi-intentional.
• Ḥamal: Ḥamal ibn al-Nābighah al-Hudhalī, a companion of the Prophet ﷺ from Hudhayl ibn Mudrika ibn Ilyās ibn Muḍar; he was the husband of the two women mentioned and later resided in Basra.
• yughram: passive form of gharima, yaghramu, ghirāmah. A ghārim is someone liable for a debt. To “pay the blood money” (gharama al-diyah) is to discharge it on another’s behalf.
• istahalla: the newborn’s raising its voice in crying at birth.