There are other hadiths warning against serving as a local community leader, narrated from a number of the Companions. Their chains of transmission are not free of weakness; they may be found at the end of the first volume of al-Targhib by al-Hafiz al-Mundhiri (1/278–280), except for the last hadith he cites, which is narrated jointly from Abu Sa‘id and Abu Hurayrah. Its wording and documentation have already appeared under no. 360.

1983 — “The blood money is borne by the agnatic relatives, and compensation for a miscarriage is a slave, male or female.”

Al-Tabarani narrated it in al-Mu‘jam al-Kabir (no. 3484), through ‘Abbad ibn Mansur: Abu al-Malih al-Hudhali informed us from Hamal ibn al-Nabighah that he had two wives: a woman of Lihyan and Mu‘awiyah, from the clan of Mu‘awiyah ibn Zayd. They met and became jealous of one another. Mu‘awiyah picked up a stone and threw it at the Lihyani woman, who was pregnant and near term, killing her; and she miscarried a boy. Hamal ibn Malik then said to ‘Imran ibn ‘Uwaymir, “Pay me the blood money for my wife.” They took their dispute to the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, and he mentioned the above hadith.

I say: This chain of transmission is weak because of the poor retention of ‘Abbad ibn Mansur. However, he was not alone in narrating it, for Qatadah corroborated him from Abu al-Malih ibn Usamah with similar wording. Al-Tabarani also narrated it (no. 3485), and its chain of transmission is authentic. Al-Nasa’i also narrated it (2/249), through another route from Hamal, in abbreviated form.

The hadith has supporting reports, including that of Abu Hurayrah, who said: “The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, ruled concerning the unborn child of a woman from Banu Lihyan, which was miscarried dead, that compensation was a slave, male or female. Then the woman upon whom the compensation had been imposed died, so the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, ruled that her inheritance belonged to her sons and her husband, while the blood money was to be borne by her agnatic relatives.” Al-Bukhari (4/286), Muslim (5/110), al-Nasa’i, and Ahmad (2/539) narrated it.