Hadith 30667

Yahya related to me from Malik from Umar ibn Husayn, the mawla ofA'isha bint Qudama, that Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan imposed retaliationagainst a man who killed a mawla with a stick and so the mawla'spatron killed the man with a stick.Malik said, "Thegenerally agreed on way of doing things in our community about whichthere is no dispute is that when a man strikes another man with astick or hits him with a rock or intentionally strikes him causing hisdeath, that is an intentional injury and there is retaliation for it."Malik said, "Intentional murder with us is that a manintentionally goes to a man and strikes him until his life goes. Partof intentional injury also is that a man strikes a man in a quarrelbetween them. He leaves him while he is alive, and he bleeds to deathand so dies. There is retaliation for that."Malik said,"What is done in our community is that a group of free men are killedfor the intentional murder of one free man, and a group of women forone woman, and a group of slaves for one slave."