The perpetrator's head is larger, so the injured person has the right to inflict a gash upon him the size of his own mudihah wound from whichever of the two sides he wishes; because he injured him in that entire location. If he executes the extent of his mudihah and then exceeds it, and confesses that he did so intentionally, then he is liable for retaliation for that amount. If the mudihah wound heals, the retaliation is carried out upon the site of the healed wound, because it is the location of the injury. If he claims error, his statement is accepted because it is plausible and he is the most knowledgeable of his own intent, and he is liable for the blood money (arsh) of a mudihah. If it is said: "If this entire mudihah were an act of aggression, only the blood money for a mudihah would be required, so how can the blood money of a mudihah be required for only a portion of it?" We say: Because what was executed was not an act of injury; the injury is only the excess. The excess, if it were independent, would be a mudihah; thus it is the same when it is accompanied by that which is not an injury, unlike the case where the whole is an act of aggression, for then the entirety is a single injury.

Section: If he inflicts a mudihah upon the entirety of his head, and the perpetrator's head is larger, and he desires to execute the retaliation partly from the front of the head and partly from the back, it is possible that this is prohibited, because he would be taking two mudihah wounds for one, and their blood money amounts differ. It is also possible that it is permissible, because he does not exceed the location of the injury nor its extent, unless the experts state that there is additional harm or disfigurement in that, in which case he should not do it. The companions of al-Shafi'i have positions similar to these two. If the injured person's head is larger, and the perpetrator inflicts upon him two mudihah wounds on the front and back, the sum of which is the size of the perpetrator's entire head, he has the choice between inflicting one mudihah on the entire head or inflicting two mudihah wounds, limiting each of them to the extent of his own mudihah, and there is no blood money for that, by a single consensus; because he relinquished the execution [of retaliation] while it was possible. If he pardons in exchange for blood money, he is entitled to the blood money of two mudihah wounds, and if he wishes, he may retaliate for one of them and take the blood money for the other.

Section: If the injury is on other than the head and face, such as on the forearm, and it exceeds the forearm of the perpetrator, he does not descend to the palm nor ascend to the upper arm. If it were