half a dirham. The apparent meaning is the expenditure of the mandatory dirhams.

688 - Issue: He said: "And whenever he kills game, he is judged [to owe a penalty]."

Its meaning is that a penalty is mandatory for the killing of a second piece of game, just as it is mandatory upon him when he kills it initially. Regarding this issue, there are three narrations from Ahmad: The first is that a penalty is mandatory for every piece of game. This is the apparent [position] of the madhhab. Abu Bakr said: "This is the more preferable of the two statements [attributed to] Abu 'Abd Allah." This is the view held by 'Ata', al-Thawri, al-Shafi'i, Ishaq, Ibn al-Mundhir, and the People of Opinion. The second is that it is not mandatory except for the first time; this is narrated from Ibn 'Abbas. This is the view held by Shurayh, al-Hasan, Sa'id ibn Jubayr, Mujahid, al-Nakha'i, and Qatadah, because Allah Almighty said: {But whoever returns to it, then Allah will take retribution from him}, and He did not make a penalty mandatory. The third is that if he offered an expiation for the first, then he owes an expiation for the second, otherwise there is nothing [due for the second], because it is an expiation that becomes mandatory due to committing a prohibited act while in ihram, so its penalty is merged [into the primary duty] before the expiation, just like wearing [sewn clothes] and [using] perfume. Our argument is that it is an expiation for killing, so the beginner and the one returning to it are equal in this regard, just like the killing of a human being. Also, it is a replacement for something destroyed in which an equivalent or its value is mandatory, so it is similar to the replacement for a human's wealth. Ahmad said: "It is narrated from 'Umar and others that they adjudicated in cases of error, and in [the case of] one who kills, they did not ask him whether he had killed before this or not." This only concerns the specific nature of ihram and its location, and the verse