Muwaṭṭaʾ Mālik 938

Urdu and English translation

زید بن اسلم سے روایت ہے کہ ایک شخص آیا حضرت عمر کے پاس اور کہا کہ میں نے چند ٹڈیوں کو کوڑے سے مار ڈالا اور میں احرام باندھے ہوئے تھا آپ نے فرمایا کہ ایک مٹھی بھر کھانا کسی کو کھلا دے ۔

Malik said, I still hear that when a person in ihram kills an ostrich, a camel is due." Malik said, "I think that for an ostrich egg, one tenth of the price of a camel is due in the same way that there is a newly-born male or female slave for the unborn child of a free woman. The value of the newly-born slave is fifty dinars, and that is one-tenth of what the blood-money for the mother would be. "Birds from the eagle family, eagles or falcons or vultures count as game for which a price is paid just as a price is paid for any game which a person in ihram kills. For everything for which a penalty is paid, the assessment is the same, whether the animal is old or young. The analogy of that is that the blood-money for the young and the old freeman, are considered to be the same." Yahya related to me from Malik from Zayd ibn Aslam that a man came to Umar ibn al-Khattab and said, "Amir al-muminin, I killed some locusts with my whip when I was in ihram," and Umar said to him, "Give a handful of food

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