Compensation (ad-Diyyah)

Diyah is an amount of compensation payable due to crimes committed involving death or injury.^[902] Although at present monetary compensation is mostly a remedy for civil loss which can include injuries, Islamic law has for a long time allowed such compensation for homicide and murder cases.

And it does not behove a believer to kill a believer except by mistake, and whoever kills a believer by mistake, he should free a believing slave, and blood-money should be paid to his people unless they remit it as alms.^[903]

The Prophet (pbuh) said:

The blood-money for unintentional murder which appears intentional, such as is done with a whip and a stick, is one hundred camels, forty of which are pregnant.^[904]

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