Doubling the blood money in the sacred months
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The questioner:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, are the months of sanctity such that the blood money is doubled in them?
The Shaykh:
This is the opinion of some scholars that killing in the Haram and killing in the sanctified months and the Haram results in the blood money being doubled. This is the opinion of some scholars, but the majority of the scholars of knowledge hold that it is not doubled, but rather the sin is more severe in them.
The presenter:
We say: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success.
The Shaykh:
the Exalted[At-Tawbah 9:36]. Yes.
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, are the months of sanctity such that the blood money is doubled in them?
The Shaykh:
This is the opinion of some scholars that killing in the Haram and killing in the sanctified months and the Haram results in the blood money being doubled. This is the opinion of some scholars, but the majority of the scholars of knowledge hold that it is not doubled, but rather the sin is more severe in them.
The presenter:
We say: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success.
The Shaykh:
the Exalted
so do not wrong yourselves during them
فَلَا تَظْلِمُوا فِيهِنَّ أَنفُسَكُمْ
Source
شرح قرة عيون الموحدين في تحقيق دعوة الأنبياء والمرسلين، باب ما جاء في التطير — islamhouse.com (1:11:40)
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