Al-Kafi 14196

Translation

Ibn Mahboub, from Al Hassan Bin Salih who said, ‘I asked Abu Abdullah^asws about a slave who cut-off the hand of a free man, and for him were three paralysed fingers from his hand. So he^asws said: ‘And what is the value of the slave?’ I said, ‘Make it to be whatever you^asws like’. He^asws said: ‘If the value of the slave was more than the wergild of the two correct fingers, and the three paralysed fingers, the one whose hand was cut off has to return to the master of the slave whatever was the remainder from the value, and seize the slave; and if he so desire to he can take the value of the two correct fingers and the three paralysed fingers’. I said, ‘And how much is the value of the two correct fingers along with the palm, and the three paralysed fingers?’ He^asws said: ‘The value of the two correct fingers along with the palm is two thousand Dirhams, and the value of the three paralysed fingers along with the palm is a thousand Dirhams, because it is the third from the wergild of the correct (fingers). He^asws said: ‘And if it was such that the value of the slave is less than the wergild of the two correct fingers, and the three paralysed fingers, the slave would be handed over to the one whose hand was cut off, or his master has to ransom him, and he can take the slave’.

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