Hadith no. 1026 will clarify this in detail, God willing.
There is a third report from the Imam (Aḥmad): the diya for accidental killing is to be divided into four equal parts—twenty-five jadhʿahs, twenty-five ḥiqqahs, twenty-five banāt labūn, and twenty-five banāt makhāḍ. This version is related from Imam Aḥmad by the collective body of his students and was preferred by al-Khirakī, because al-Zuhrī narrated from al-Sāʾib ibn Yazīd: “During the time of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, the diya was apportioned in quarters: twenty-five jadhʿahs, twenty-five ḥiqqahs, twenty-five banāt labūn, and twenty-five banāt makhāḍ.” The same view is reported from ʿAbdullāh ibn Masʿūd (may Allah be pleased with him).
Resolution of the Council of Senior Scholars on the Valuation of Diyas
Resolution no. 50, dated 30/8/1396 AH
Praise be to Allah alone, and may blessings and peace be upon the Prophet after whom there is no prophet.
To proceed:
At the ninth session of the Council of Senior Scholars, held in the city of Ṭāʾif in Shaʿbān 1396 AH, the Council reviewed Royal Letter no. 33867 dated 2/12/1395 AH from His Highness the Deputy Prime Minister, which contained approval of the proposal to reconsider the valuation of the blood-money for loss of life, in light of the fluctuations in the price of camels—the original basis of the diya—so that justice and equity might be achieved.
Accordingly, the Council studied the matter in the light of the textual evidences that establish the diya. It is unanimously agreed among the scholars that camels are the primary form of the diya and that the diya for a free Muslim is one hundred camels. Moreover, the weightier opinion among the scholars is that camels constitute the essence of the diya, while anything else serves only as an equivalent value—this being one of the two narrations from Imam Aḥmad and the view preferred by al-Khirakī, al-Muwaffaq, and others.