1018 – On the authority of Ibn ʿAbbās (may Allah be pleased with him): the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, “Whoever is killed ʿimmiyyan or rimiyyan, whether by a stone, a whip, or a staff, his blood money is that prescribed for accidental homicide. Whoever is slain deliberately is subject to full retaliation (qawad), and whoever obstructs the implementation of that retaliation incurs the curse of Allah.” Reported by Abū Dāwūd, al-Nasāʾī, and Ibn Mājah with a strong chain of transmission. (1)

Grade of the ḥadīth
Its isnād is strong, as the author stated. Ibn ʿAbd al-Hādī said, “Its chain is good.”

Vocabulary
• ʿimmiyyan: pronounced with a kasrah on the ʿayn, a doubled mīm, and a short yāʾ, on the pattern fiʿʿīlā, derived from al-ʿamāʾ (obscurity).
• rimiyyan: with a kasrah on the rāʾ, a doubled mīm, and a short yāʾ, on the pattern faʿīlā, from ramy (hurling). Both ʿimmiyyan and rimiyyan are verbal nouns used hyperbolically. The meaning is that when people are engaged in a melee and a corpse is later found while the killer remains unknown, the ruling is that of accidental killing and the blood money becomes due.
• sawṭ: a whip made of leather, whether braided or not.
• ʿaṣā: a stick fashioned from wood or the like, used for leaning or striking; plural ʿiṣī.
• faʿqluhu ʿaqlu al-khaṭaʾ: ʿaql here means blood money; that is, his compensation equals the blood money for accidental killing.
• qawad: pronounced with an open qāf and wāw and ending with a dāl; it refers to qiṣāṣ (retaliation) and is called qawad because—