Hadith 6916

Muwatta Malik

موطأ مالك

246


Malik said, I still hear that when a person in ihram kills anostrich, a camel is due."Malik said, "I think that for anostrich egg, one tenth of the price of a camel is due in the same waythat there is a newly-born male or female slave for the unborn childof a free woman. The value of the newly-born slave is fifty dinars,and that is one-tenth of what the blood-money for the mother would be."Birds from the eagle family, eagles or falcons or vulturescount as game for which a price is paid just as a price is paid forany game which a person in ihram kills. For everything for which apenalty is paid, the assessment is the same, whether the animal is oldor young. The analogy of that is that the blood-money for the youngand the old freeman, are considered to be the same."

USC-MSA web (English) reference: Book 20, Hadith 243