it, but rather it returned in another location, unlike the case preceding it. If he cuts his tongue and his speech is lost, then the tongue returns without the speech, he does not return the blood money; for what the blood money was due for has been lost independently. And if his speech returns without his tongue, he also does not return it for the same reason.

Section: If his tongue has two tips and he cuts one of them, and his speech is lost, the blood money is due for it, because the loss of speech alone necessitates the blood money. If some speech is lost, you should look: if the two tips are equal and what he cut is equal to the amount of speech lost, it is due. If one of them is greater, the greater amount is due, according to what has passed. If nothing of the speech is lost, the blood money is due in proportion to what was lost of the tongue. If one of them is distorted from the proper alignment of the tongue, it is an excess physical trait, for which a compensatory assessment (hukuma) is due. If he cuts the entire tongue, the blood money is due without addition, whether the tips are equal or different. The Qadi said: If they are equal, the blood money is due for them, and if one of them is distorted from the alignment of the tongue, the blood money is due plus a compensatory assessment for the excess trait. Our argument is that this excess is a defect and a deficiency by which a sold item would be returned and its price reduced, so nothing is due for it, like an extra digit on a hand. Perhaps both opinions return to the same thing, because no amount is awarded via the compensatory assessment if the excess is a defect.

1491 - Issue: He said: "For every tooth, five camels [are due] when it is extracted from someone who has reached the age of shedding [baby teeth], and the molars and canines are like the incisors."

We do not know of any disagreement among the people of knowledge that the blood money for teeth is five [camels] for each tooth. This has been narrated from Umar ibn al-Khattab, Ibn Abbas, Mu'awiyah, Sa'id ibn al-Musayyib, Urwah, Ata', Tawus, al-Zuhri, Qatadah, Malik, al-Thawri, al-Shafi'i, and Ishaq.