hashimah (fracture), even if it was a munaqqilah (displaced fracture) or less than that, or a ma'mumah (head wound reaching the brain membrane) or less than that, then he is liable for the compensation of a munaqqilah or a ma'mumah for what we have mentioned.

Section: There is no fixed compensation for a mudiha other than on the head and the face, according to the opinion of the majority of scholars; among them are our Imam, Malik, al-Thawri, al-Shafi'i, Ishaq, and Ibn al-Mundhir. Ibn 'Abd al-Barr said: "There is no mudiha on the body," meaning there is no fixed compensation for it. He said: "The majority of scholars are upon this, except for al-Layth ibn Sa'd, who said: The mudiha occurs on the body as well." Al-Awza'i said regarding a wound on the body: "It is half of the wound on the head." Similar to this was narrated from 'Ata' al-Khurasani, who said: "For a mudiha on the rest of the body, there are twenty-five dinars." Our position is that the term 'mudiha' only applies to the specific wound on the face and head, and the statement of the two Rightly Guided Caliphs: "The mudiha on the face and the head are equal," indicates that the rest of the body is otherwise. Furthermore, because the disfigurement on the head and face is greater and more critical than that on the rest of the body, it cannot be equated to it. Moreover, making it mandatory on the rest of the body leads to a situation where the compensation for a mudiha on a limb would exceed the blood money for that limb itself, such as if he were to inflict a mudiha on a fingertip, for which the blood money is three and a third [camels], whereas the blood money for a mudiha is five. As for the statement of al-Awza'i and 'Ata' al-Khurasani, it is an arbitrary ruling (tahakkum) for which there is no text and no analogy to support it, so it must be rejected.

Section: If he inflicts a mudiha on his head and drags the knife to his nape, he is liable for the compensation of a mudiha, and a government (discretionary compensation) for the wound on the nape, because the nape is not a place for a mudiha. If he inflicts it on his head and extends it to his face, there are two positions: one is that it is a single mudiha, because the face and head are equal regarding the mudiha, so it becomes like a single limb. The second is that they are two mudihas, because he inflicted it on two limbs, so each one has its own ruling, just as if he had inflicted it on his head and descended to the nape.

Section: If he inflicts two mudihas on his head with a barrier between them, he is liable for the compensation of two mudihas, because they are two mudihas. If he removes the barrier that was between them, the compensation of a single mudiha becomes due.