What is “borne by the kin group responsible for payment,” by scholarly agreement, is compensation exceeding one-third of the full blood money. For example, putting out an eye requires payment of half the full blood money.

As for compensation below one-third—such as that for a tooth, which is half of one-tenth of the full blood money, or a finger, which is one-tenth—the kin group does not bear it according to the schools of Mālik and Ahmad. Rather, according to al-Shāfiʿī, it is payable from the offender’s own property. According to Abū Hanīfah, the kin group does not bear compensation below the prescribed amount for a tooth or a wound exposing the bone, such as compensation for a head wound less severe than one exposing the bone.

If a boy becomes liable for a payment but has no property, his father bears it on his behalf according to one of the two positions reported from Ahmad. This was also reported from Ibn ʿAbbās. According to the other position, which is the view of most scholars, it remains a debt owed by the boy, and his father bears no liability. Allah knows best.

He—may Allah have mercy on him—was asked:

A man said to his wife, “Abort what is in your womb, and I shall bear the sin.” If she does so, obeying him, what expiation must they offer?

He replied:

If she does that, they must offer the expiation of freeing a believing slave. If they cannot find one, they must fast for two consecutive months. They must also give a male or female slave as compensation to the unborn child’s heir who took no part in killing it—not to the father, for the father ordered its killing and is therefore entitled to nothing.