Section on Injuries (Jināyāt)

Any wounds, loss of life, or other shedding of blood caused by a beast while it has with it a driver, a rider, or a leader are deemed unintentional. If the compensation reaches one-third of the full diya or more, the payment is borne by the ʿāqila (the agnatic kin responsible for blood-money). If it is less than one-third, it is taken from the personal wealth of the driver, the rider, and the leader.

They are not liable for damage the animal causes with its hind foot unless one of them has struck it or provoked it; if it has been neither struck nor provoked, no liability attaches to them. In every case, however, they are liable for whatever the animal injures with its forepart, in accordance with the ruling on accidental injury that we have already mentioned. All of this is the opinion of Mālik and his companions.

If the animal’s injury—whether with its forepart or its hind foot—occurs after one of them has struck it or provoked it and the loss concerns property, the compensation comes out of the wealth of the driver, the leader, and the rider, because the ʿāqila do not guarantee property; thus, it is paid from the wealth of the driver, the leader, and the rider, because the ʿāqila do not guarantee property.

And an animal’s injury, if it does not