Sahih bukhari Hadith No: 6890/7563
Sahih al-Bukhari is a collection of hadith compiled by Imam Muhammad al-Bukhari (d. 256 AH/870 AD) (rahimahullah). His collection is recognized by the overwhelming majority of the Muslim world to be the most authentic collection of reports of the Sunnah of the Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ). It contains over 7500 hadith (with repetitions) in 97 books. The translation provided here is by Dr. M. Muhsin Khan.
List of chapters in the book of Blood Money (Ad-Diyat)
1 The Statement of Allah: "...And whoever kills a believer in entionally, his recompense is Hell..." (Quran.4:93)
2 The Statement of Allah: "And if anyone saved a life it will be as if they saved all of humanity" (Quran.5:32)
3 The Statement of Allah: "O you who believe! Al-Qisas (the Law of Equality in punishment) is prescribe for you in case of murder: The free for the free, the slave for the slave, and the female for the female. But if the killer is forgiven by the brother (or the relatives) of the killed against blood-money, then adhering to it with fairness and payment of the blood-money to the heir should be made in fairness. This is an alleviation and a mercy from your Lord. So after this, whoever transgresses the limits, (i.e., kills the killer after taking the blood-money), he shall have a painful torment."(Quran.2:178)
4 To question the killer till he confesses; and confession in cases where Divinely prescribed punishments are imperative.
5 If someone kills (somebody) with a stone or with a stick.
6 The Statement ofAllah: "(And We ordained therein for them:) 'Life for life, eye for eye, nose for nose, ear for ear, tooth for tooth and wounds qual for equal.' But if anyone remits the retaliation by way of charity, it shall be for him an expiation. And whosoever does not judge by that which Allah has revealed, such are Az-Zalimun (polytheists, oppressors and wrongdoers - of a lesser degree)." (Quran.5:45)
7 Whoever punished (a killer) with a stone (in retaliation)
8 The relative of the killed person has the right to choose one of two compensations (i.e., to have the killer killed, or to accept blood-money)
9 Whoever seeks to shed somebody's blood without any right
10 Excusing somebody who killed another by mistake
11 The Statement of Allah: "It is not for a believer to kill a believer except (that it be) by mistake, and whosoever kills a believer by mistake, (it is ordained that) he must set free a believing slave and a compensation (blood-money i.e., Diya) be given to the deceased's family, unless they remit it. If the deceased belonged to a people at war with you and he was a believer; the freeing of a believing slave (is prescribed), and if he belonged to a people with whom you have a treaty of mutual illiance, compensation must be paid to his family, and a believing slave must be freed. And whoso finds this (the penance of freeing a slave) beyond his means, he must observe fast for two consecutive months in order to seek repentance from Allah. And Allah is ever All-Knowing, All-Wise." (Quran.4:92)
12 If a killer confesses once, he should be killed
13 Killing a man for having killed a woman
14 Al-Qisas (Law of Equality in punishment) in cases of injury among men and women
15 Whoever took his right or retaliation from somebody without submitting the case to the ruler
16 If someone dies or is killed in a big crowd
17 If someone kills himself by mistake, there is no Diya (blood money) for him
18 If somebody bites a man and has his one tooth broken
19 Tooth for tooth
20 The Diya (blood money) for cutting fingers
21 If a group of people have killed or injured one man, will all of them have to give the Diya or be punished with the law of Al-Qisas (equality in punishment)?
22 Al-Qasama [the ath taken by fifty people (of the defendant) regarding a murder case when no evidence is available]
23 If somebody peeps into the house of some people whereupon they poked his eye; he has no right to claim blood-money
24 Al-'Aqila (the relatives from the father's side) who pay the Diya (blood money)
25 The foetus (that is inside the uterus) of a (pregnant) woman
26 The foetus of a woman. The Diya for the killed one is to be collected from the father of the killer, and his 'Asaba (near relatives from the father's side) but not from the killer's children.
27 Whoever sought the help of a slave or a boy
28 No Diya (blood-money) is to be paid in cases of mines and wells
29 There is no Diya (bloodmoney) for the one killed by an animal unaccompanied by somebody to control it
30 The sin of a person who killed an innocent Dhimi (a non-Muslim living in a Muslim state and enjoying the protection of Muslims)
31 A Muslim should not be killed for killing a Kafir (disbeliever)
32 If a Muslim, being furious, slaps a Jew, (no compensation is required)
