Muwatta Malik is one of the earliest and most respected collections of hadith and Islamic jurisprudence, compiled by Imam Malik ibn Anas. It combines the sayings and actions of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) with the practices of the people of Madinah, serving as a foundational text for Maliki fiqh and Islamic legal tradition.

Book 43, Blood Money, discusses compensations for injury or death.

Muwatta Malik: Book 43, Hadith 37

Muwatta Malik: Book 43, Hadith 37 11 Malik related to me from Yahya ibn Said from Urwa ibn az- Zubayr that a man of the Ansar called Uhayha ibn al-Julah had a young paternal uncle who was younger than him and who was living with his maternal uncles. Uhayha took him and killed him. His […]

Muwatta Malik: Book 43, Hadith 38

Muwatta Malik: Book 43, Hadith 38 Yahya related to me from Malik from Ibn Shihab from Said ibn al- Musayyab and Abu Salama ibn Abd ar-Rahman from Abu Hurayra that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, “The wound of an animal is of no account and no compensation […]

Muwatta Malik: Book 43, Hadith 39

Muwatta Malik: Book 43, Hadith 39 Yahya related to me from Malik from Yahya ibn Said from Said ibn al-Musayyab that Umar ibn al-Khattab killed five or seven people for one man whom they had killed secretly by trickery. Umar said, “Had all the people of Sana joined forces against him, I would have killed […]

Muwatta Malik: Book 43, Hadith 40

Muwatta Malik: Book 43, Hadith 40 Yahya related to me from Malik from Muhammad ibn Abd ar-Rahman ibn Sad ibn Zurara that he had heard that Hafsa, the wife of the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, killed one of her slave-girls who had used sorcery against her. She was a mudabbara. […]

Muwatta Malik: Book 43, Hadith 41

Muwatta Malik: Book 43, Hadith 41 Yahya related to me from Malik from Umar ibn Husayn, the mawla of A’isha bint Qudama, that Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan imposed retaliation against a man who killed a mawla with a stick and so the mawla’s patron killed the man with a stick. Malik said, “The generally agreed […]

Muwatta Malik: Book 43, Hadith 42

Muwatta Malik: Book 43, Hadith 42 Yahya related to me from Malik that he had heard that Marwan ibn al-Hakam wrote to Muawiya ibn Abi Sufyan to mention to him that a drunkard was brought to him who had killed a man. Muawiya wrote to him to kill him in retaliation for the dead man. […]

Muwatta Malik: Book 43, Hadith 43

Muwatta Malik: Book 43, Hadith 43 Yahya related to me from Malik that he saw whomever he was satisfied with among the people of knowledge say about a man who willed that his murderer be pardoned when he murdered him intentionally, “That is permitted for him. He is more entitled to the man’s blood than […]

Muwatta Malik: Book 43, Hadith 44

Muwatta Malik: Book 43, Hadith 44 Yahya said that Malik said, “The generally agreed on way of doing things in our community is that retaliation is taken from someone who breaks someone’s hand or foot intentionally and not blood-money.” Malik said, “Retaliation is not inflicted on anyone until the wound of the injured party has […]

Muwatta Malik: Book 43, Hadith 45

Muwatta Malik: Book 43, Hadith 45 Yahya related to me from Malik from Abu’z-Zinad from Sulayman ibn Yasar that a slave was set free by one of the people on hajj and his master had abandoned the right to inherit from him. The ex-slave then killed a man from the Banu A’idh tribe. An A’idhi, […]