سَأَلْتُ أَبَا جَعْفَرٍ ( عليه السلام ) عَنِ امْرَأَةٍ شَرِبَتْ دَوَاءً وَ هِيَ حَامِلٌ وَ لَمْ يَعْلَمْ بِذَلِكَ زَوْجُهَا فَأَلْقَتْ وَلَدَهَا قَالَ فَقَالَ إِنْ كَانَ لَهُ عَظْمٌ وَ قَدْ نَبَتَ عَلَيْهِ اللَّحْمُ عَلَيْهَا دِيَةٌ تُسَلِّمُهَا لِأَبِيهِ وَ إِنْ كَانَ حِينَ طَرَحَتْهُ عَلَقَةً أَوْ مُضْغَةً فَإِنَّ عَلَيْهَا أَرْبَعِينَ دِينَاراً أَوْ غُرَّةً تُؤَدِّيهَا إِلَى أَبِيهِ قُلْتُ لَهُ فَهِيَ لَا تَرِثُ وَلَدَهَا مِنْ دِيَتِهِ مَعَ أَبِيهِ قَالَ لَا لِأَنَّهَا قَتَلَتْهُ فَلَا تَرِثُهُ .
Translation
A number of our companions, from Sahl Bin Ziyad and Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, altogether from Al Hassan Bin Mahboub, from Ibn Raib, from Abu Ubeyda who said, ‘I asked Abu Ja’far<sup>asws</sup> about a woman who drank medicine and she was pregnant, and her husband did not know of that. So her child miscarried. So he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘If there were bones for him (the child), and the flesh had grown upon him, the wergild is upon her to submit it to its father. However, if she miscarried a clot or lump (unformed), so upon her would be forty Dinars, or a slave to be paid to its father’. I said, ‘Would she not inherit the wergild of her child along with its father?’ He<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘No, because she killed it, so she would not inherit’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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