Al-Kafi 14334

Translation

Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad Bin Isa, from Ibn Mahboub, from Abu Ayoub Al Khazaz, from Muhammad Bin Muslim who said, ‘I asked Abu Ja’far^asws about the man who struck the woman, so she dropped the seed. So he^asws said: ‘Upon him is twenty Dinars’. So I said, ‘He hits her and she drops the clot?’ So he^asws said: ‘Upon him is forty Dinars’. I said, ‘So he hits her, and she drops the lump?’ He^asws said: ‘Upon his is sixty Dinars’. I said, ‘So he hits her, she drops it, and bones had occurred upon it?’ So he^asws said: ‘Upon him is the complete wergild, and it is by this that Amir Al-Momineen^asws judged’. I said, ‘So what is the description of the creation of the seed which it is recognised by?’ So he^asws said: ‘The seed happens to be white, like the thick phlegm. So it remains in the womb. When forty days pass over it, then it becomes a clot’. I said, ‘So what is the description of the creation of the clot which it is recognised by?’ So he^asws said: ‘It is a clot like the clot of the coagulated blood, solidified, remaining in the womb after its conversion from the seed, for forty days, then it becomes a lump’. I said, ‘So what is the description of the lump and its creation which it is recognised by?’ He^asws said: ‘It is a lump of red flesh in which are green veins, entangled. Then it becomes bones’. I said, ‘So what is the description of its creation when it was bones?’ So he^asws said: ‘When it was bones, there are formed limbs for it, the hearing, and the sight, and arrangement of its limbs. So when it was like that, so regarding it is the complete wergild’.

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