BOOK 16. KITAB AL-QASAMA WA'L-MUHARABA
WA'L QISAS WA'L-DIYAT
(Pertaining To The Oath, For Establishing The Resposibility Of Murders, Fighting, Requital And Blood-Wit )
Chapter
- Al-Qasamah
- Pertainiing to the combatants and apostates
- The justification of Qisas (retribution) when one is
killed with stone or any other heavy thing and
killing of a male for the murder of a female
- When anyone attacks the life of a person, or his
limb and the victim wards off the attack and in
self-defence either the life of the assailant is lost
or his limb broken, there would be no penalty on the victim
- The veracity of retribution In case of a tooth
- When it is permissible to take the life of a Muslim
- He who sheds the blood first of all bears the burden
of all subsequent murders
- The (cases of) bloodshed would be decided first of
all on the day of judgment
- The confession of murder is held valid and the person
whose man is killed is entitled to get retribution,
the offender has a right to beg for remission
- Blood-wit of the child in the womb; and the essentiality
of blood-with in case of unintentional
murder and in case of the quasi-intentional murder