Al-Kafi 14405

Translation

Ibn Mahboub, from Malik Bin Atiyya, from his father, from Salma Bin Kuheyl who said, ‘They came to Amir Al-Momineen^asws with a man who had killed a man in error. So Amir Al-Momineen^asws said to him: ‘Who are your clan and your relatives?’ So he said, ‘There is neither a clan nor any relatives for me in this city’. So he^asws said: ‘So from which of the cities are you?’ So he said, ‘I am a man from the people of Mosul, born in it and for me are relatives and family’. He (the narrator) said, ‘So Amir Al-Momineen^asws asked about him, but they did no find at Al-Kufa, neither relatives nor a clan. So he^asws wrote to his^asws office-bearer in Al-Mosul: ‘As for afterwards, so and so son of so and so, and his appearance is such and such, killed one (person) from the Muslim in error. So, he mentioned that he is a man from Al-Mosul, and that for him, at it, are relatives and a family, and I^asws am sending him to you with my^asws so and so son of so and so messenger, and his appearance is such and such. So when they come over to you, Allah^azwj Willing, and you read my^asws letter, so examine his matter and ask about his relatives from the Muslims. So if there was one from the people of Al-Mosul, from the ones who were born at it, and relationships were established by it from the Muslims, so gather them to you. Then look around, so if there was among them a man who would inherit a share from him, in the Book (Quran), no one from his relatives barring him from his inheritance, so necessitate the wergild, and take it by instalments over three years. So if there does not happen to be a relative of his for whom there is a share in the Book (Quran), and that his relatives were equal in their kinship, and there was for him a relative from his father and his mother being equal in the kinship, so divide the payable wergild upon his relatives from his father, and upon the relatives from his mother, from the adult Muslim males. Then make it upon his relatives (female) from his father, two-thirds of the wergild, and make it upon his relatives from his mother, one-third of the wergild. And if there do not happen to be relatives for him from his father, so divide the payable wergild upon his relatives from his mother, from the adult Muslim males. Then seize them by it, and make them pay the wergild during three years. So if there do not happen to be relatives for him from his mother, nor any relatives for him from his father, so divide the payable wergild upon the people of Al-Mosul from the one who were born at it, and grew up, and do not include others among them from the people of the city. Then make it payable from them over three years, an instalment in each year, until they have fulfilled it, Allah^azwj Willing. And if there do not happen to be relatives for so and so, son of so and so, from the people of Al-Mosul. And if he does not happen to be from its people, and he has falsified it, so return him to me^asws along with my^asws messenger, so and so, son of so and so, Allah^azwj willing, for I^asws am his guardian, and the claimant from him, and I^asws will not invalidate the blood of a Muslim person’.

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