The death of a child struck by a car and what is required of his parents
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Question:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. A child who is four years old, and his mother sent him to the grocery store, and on the way a car hit him, so he died immediately. Is there anything required of his parents? Knowing that the traffic report assigned seventy-five percent to the family and twenty-five percent to the car driver, what is required of the family?
Answer:
No, no, there is nothing required of the family. This is on the car driver, the direct cause. The expiation and the blood money are on the direct cause, and there is nothing on the family. The traffic report is wrong. What is on the family? There is nothing on the family. The family is in the house, and it is the custom of people to send their children to get things? He is four years old. Or four years old, as long as he walks and understands, this is the custom of people, so there is nothing on the family; because they did something permissible. And if a contributing cause and a direct cause coincide, even if we say they are contributing causes, if a contributing cause and a direct cause coincide, the responsible party is the direct cause, not the contributing cause, so the responsibility of the whole world is on the direct driver.
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. A child who is four years old, and his mother sent him to the grocery store, and on the way a car hit him, so he died immediately. Is there anything required of his parents? Knowing that the traffic report assigned seventy-five percent to the family and twenty-five percent to the car driver, what is required of the family?
Answer:
No, no, there is nothing required of the family. This is on the car driver, the direct cause. The expiation and the blood money are on the direct cause, and there is nothing on the family. The traffic report is wrong. What is on the family? There is nothing on the family. The family is in the house, and it is the custom of people to send their children to get things? He is four years old. Or four years old, as long as he walks and understands, this is the custom of people, so there is nothing on the family; because they did something permissible. And if a contributing cause and a direct cause coincide, even if we say they are contributing causes, if a contributing cause and a direct cause coincide, the responsible party is the direct cause, not the contributing cause, so the responsibility of the whole world is on the direct driver.
Source
الفوزان -أشرطة- شرح زاد المستقنع مع الأسئلة - ٠٧٧-كتاب الطلاق - ١٨-١-٢٥ هـ — archive.org (1:13:00)
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