1031 – ʿAmr ibn Shuʿayb, from his father, from his grandfather (may Allah be pleased with him), reported that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: “The blood-money for quasi-intentional homicide is aggravated, identical to the blood-money for intentional homicide, yet the killer is not to be executed. This ruling exists lest Satan leap forth, causing bloodshed among people without rancor or the brandishing of weapons.” Reported by al-Dāraquṭnī, who graded it weak. (1)

— Grade of the ḥadith:
The ḥadith is hasan. Al-Dāraquṭnī narrated it and judged it weak, whereas al-Bayhaqī transmitted it through his chain and did not weaken it. Imām Aḥmad also included it in his Musnad. Bulūgh al-Amānī notes that the chain contains ʿAlī ibn Zayd ibn Judʿān, about whom there is scholarly criticism. A second route—on the authority of ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAmr ibn al-ʿĀṣ—was authenticated by Ibn Ḥibbān, Ibn al-Qaṭṭān, and al-Suyūṭī.

— Vocabulary:
• quasi-intentional homicide (shibh al-ʿamd): when a person intends an assault with something that normally does not kill, yet the victim dies from that assault.
• aggravated (mughallaẓah): the opposite of leniency. The “aggravated” blood-money applies to intentional and quasi-intentional killings; it is paid in four equal quarters from specific classes of camels: two-year-old she-camels (banāt al-makhāḍ), three-year-old she-camels (banāt labūn), four-year-old she-camels (ḥiqāq), and five-year-old mature she-camels (jazʿah).
• that Satan springs up (yanzu ash-shayṭān): the verb naza means “to leap,” as a stallion vaults, or “for evil to stir.” Al-Nihāyah states: “One says, ‘I leapt upon the thing (nazawtu ʿalā ash-shayʾ),’ and it may also refer to physical bodies…”