1519 - Issue: He said: "If the victim is half-free and [half-slave], there is no retaliation (Qawad). The perpetrator, if it was intentional (‘amd), owes half the blood money of a free person and half the value of the slave. The same applies to his injuries. If it was by mistake (khata'), he owes half the slave’s value, and his ‘Aqilah (the perpetrator's agnatic kinsmen) owes half the blood money."

This means there is no retaliation upon his killer if he is half-free, because he is deficient due to slavery, so a free person is not killed for him, just as if he were entirely a slave. If his killer is a slave, he is killed for him because he is more complete than the perpetrator. If half the killer is free, retaliation is mandatory due to their equality. If the freedom of the killer is greater, retaliation is not mandatory due to the lack of equality between them. In all these cases, if the killer is not a slave, he owes half the blood money of a free person and half the value of the victim in cases of intentional killing, because the ‘Aqilah does not bear the burden of intentional crimes. If it was by mistake, he owes half the slave's value from his own wealth, because the ‘Aqilah does not bear the burden of the slave's value, and his ‘Aqilah owes half the blood money because it is the blood money of a free person in a case of mistake, and the ‘Aqilah does bear that. The same rule applies to his injuries if the proportion of the blood money from their compensation reaches one-third of the blood money, such as if [someone] cuts off his nose or his two hands. If he cuts off one of his hands, the full compensation for it is upon the perpetrator from his wealth, because [the perpetrator] owes half the compensation for a hand, which is one-fourth of his [the victim's] total blood money due to the freedom of half of him, and that is less than one-third of the blood money; thus, he owes one-fourth of his value.

Section: The blood money for limbs is like the blood money for a life. If the mandatory amount is in gold or silver (wariq), it does not differ between intentional and accidental cases. If it is in camels, in an intentional case, it is mandatory in fourths according to one of the two narrations, while in the other, it is mandatory as one-fifth plus one-tenth of them as Hiqqah (three-year-old camels), one-fifth plus one-tenth as Jidha'ah (four-year-old camels), and two-fifths as Khalifat (pregnant camels). In a case of mistake, it is mandatory in fifths. If it is impossible to divide it, such as if he wounds him intentionally (Muwaddihah), then four-fourths are mandatory, and the fifth is from one of the four categories, its value being one-fourth.