امْرَأَةٍ شَرِبَتْ دَوَاءً وَ هِيَ حَامِلٌ لِتَطْرَحَ وَلَدَهَا فَأَلْقَتْ وَلَدَهَا فَقَالَ إِنْ كَانَ عَظْماً قَدْ نَبَتَ عَلَيْهِ اللَّحْمُ وَ شُقَّ لَهُ السَّمْعُ وَ الْبَصَرُ فَإِنَّ عَلَيْهَا دِيَتَهُ تُسَلِّمُهَا إِلَى أَبِيهِ قَالَ وَ إِنْ كَانَ جَنِيناً عَلَقَةً أَوْ مُضْغَةً فَإِنَّ عَلَيْهَا أَرْبَعِينَ دِينَاراً أَوْ غُرَّةً تُسَلِّمُهَا إِلَى أَبِيهِ قُلْتُ فَهِيَ لَا تَرِثُ مِنْ وَلَدِهَا مِنْ دِيَتِهِ قَالَ لَا لِأَنَّهَا قَتَلَتْهُ .
Translation
Ibn Mahboub, from Ali Bin Raib, from Abu Ubeyda, (It has been narrated) from Abu Ja’far<sup>asws</sup> regarding a woman who drank medication and she was pregnant, in order to abort her child. So she miscarried her child (as a result). So he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘If it was bones and flesh had grown upon it, and the hearing and the sight had been pierced for it, so upon her is its wergild to be submitted to its father. And if it was a foetus, either a clot or a lump, so upon her would be forty Dinars, a compensation to be submitted to its father’. I said, ‘So she would not be inheriting from her child, from its wergild?’ He<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘No, because she killed it’.
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