Al-Kafi 14339

Translation

Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Ibn Mahboun, from Abdullah Bin Ghalib, from his father, from Saeed Bin Al Musayyab who said, ‘I asked Ali Bin Al-Husayn^asws about a man who struck a pregnant woman by his leg, so she dropped what was in her belly, as dead’. So he^asws said: ‘So if it was seed, so upon is twenty Dinars’. I said, ‘So what is the limit for the seed?’ So he^asws said: ‘It is which, when it fall in the womb, so it rests in it for forty days’. He^asws said: ‘And if she dropped it and it was a clot, so upon him is forty Dinars’. I said, ‘So what is the limit of the clot?’ So he^asws said: ‘It is which, when it falls in the womb, so it settles in it for eighty days’. He^asws said: ‘And if she dropped it, and it was a lump, so upon him is sixty Dinars’. I said, ‘So what is the limit of the lump?’ So he^asws said: ‘it is which, when it falls in the womb, so it settles in it for one hundred and twenty days’. He^asws said: ‘And if she dropped it, and it is a person for whom is Created the bones, and the flesh, distinguishable limbs, and there has been Blown into it the spirit of the intellect, so upon him is the complete wergild’. I said to him^asws, ‘So what is your^asws view if it is transforming in her belly to a state, would it be with a sprit, or without a spirit?’ He^asws said: ‘With a spirit except for the old life which gets transferred in the loins of the men and the wombs of the women. And if it were not so that there was spirit in it except for the life, it would not have converted from a state after a state, in the womb, and there would not have been a wergild upon the one who kills it, and it would be in that state’.

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