Valuing blood money at exorbitant amounts opens the door for people to trade and rejoice when one of them is killed

Question:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. A young man was sentenced to retaliation, and the family of the victim accepted blood money in the amount of ten million. Is it permissible to give him from the zakah?

Answer:
I do not know; these are exaggerations, and buying and selling in ten million—I do not know about this. This opens a door for people, and blood money becomes a trade, and they rejoice when one of them is killed so that they can get ten million, or twenty million, or a hundred million. So it should not be that this door is opened, and people want greed. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Either they take retaliation, or they accept blood money. The blood money is known; the blood money is known from camels or the equivalent in dirhams. As for exaggerations to this extent, if the increase were a bearable matter and a slight matter, there is no harm. But if it reaches ten million, or twenty million, or a hundred million, or perhaps a billion, this opens the door for people, and blood money becomes a trade. Yes.