4 – Litigation is blameworthy in and of itself, and it becomes even more repugnant when conducted in a brutal manner that resembles the savage conduct of ferocious beasts such as stud camels.

5 – The Prophet ﷺ waived both retaliation and blood money for the two lost incisors because he considered the incident an act of spontaneous self-defense, and in that moment no gentler course of action was available.

Al-Iqnaʿ and its commentary state: “If someone unlawfully bites another person’s hand and the victim pulls his hand out of the biter’s mouth—even violently—causing the biter’s incisors to be dislodged, no compensation is owed, whether the one bitten was originally at fault or was the wronged party, in light of the ḥadith of ʿImrān ibn Ḥuṣayn.”