one of the two partners confesses to their intentional act, and the other says: We erred, then qisas is incumbent upon the one who confessed to the intentional act.

Section: If a judge issues a ruling regarding property based on the testimony of a man and two women, and then they retract their testimony, the liability is distributed among them: half upon the man, and one-quarter upon each woman. If one of them retracts alone, then his share of the liability is upon him. If the witnesses are one man and ten women and they retract, then one-sixth is upon the man, and one-half of one-sixth is upon each woman. This is the position of Abu Hanifah and al-Shafi'i, because every two women are equivalent to one man, so ten are like five men. It is possible that half is incumbent upon the women and half upon the man; this is the view of Abu Yusuf and Muhammad, because the man constitutes half the evidence, as evidenced by the fact that if he were to retract alone after the ruling, it would be like all of them retracting, so the man acts as one party and the women as another party. If some of the women retract alone, or the man, then the liability upon the retracting party is the same as what would be upon him if everyone had retracted. According to Abu Hanifah and his associates, whenever more than two of the women retract, there is nothing upon the retracting women, and the discussion with them on this matter has already passed.

Section: If four people testify regarding four hundred, and the judge rules based on it, then one retracts regarding one hundred, another regarding two hundred, a third regarding three hundred, and the fourth regarding four hundred, then each one is liable for the proportion of what they retracted; thus, twenty-five is upon the first, fifty upon the second, seventy-five upon the third, and one hundred upon the fourth, because each one of them acknowledges that he caused the one testified against to lose a quarter of what he retracted. The madhhab of Abu Hanifah requires that the one who retracted regarding three hundred and four hundred be held liable for no more than fifty each, because the two hundred regarding which they retracted still had two witnesses remaining.

Section: If four people testify to adultery and two to ihsan (the state of being married/having had licit intercourse), and he is stoned, then they retract their testimony, the liability is upon all of them. Abu Hanifah said: There is no liability upon the witnesses of ihsan, because they testified to a condition rather than the cause that necessitates killing, and that [killing] is only established through the testimony of adultery. The associates of al-Shafi'i have two views, similar to the two madhhabs. Our position is that his killing occurred through the combination of both testimonies, so the indemnity is incumbent upon all, just as if they had all testified to adultery. Regarding...