The Ruling on Blood Money After a Car Accident in Which One of the Passengers Died
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Question:
This questioner says he is from the Sultanate of Oman. He says: Your Eminence, the Shaykh, the father, 'Abd al-'Aziz ibn 'Abd Allah ibn Baz (may Allah preserve him). An accident happened to my uncle two months ago. He was accompanied by a man, the man's son, and my cousin. While they were on the road at the end of the night, my uncle preferred to stay overnight on the road, but his companion insisted that he continue, even though they knew the road had severe slopes and thick fog that prevented them from seeing. Suddenly, on the road, after my uncle yielded to the man, my uncle could not control the car, and it collided with the mountain, avoiding the severe slope. When the car stopped, my uncle did not find his companion or his son. When he searched for them, he found the man outside the car, having passed away, and the son had some fractures. The high probability is that he opened the door and jumped out of the car, especially after finding the door open. So what is the ruling? What is upon my uncle after the insurance company paid the blood money to the man's family? And does the ruling differ if the car threw the man out or not?
Answer:
This is a matter for the court. This is a matter for the government; the court looks into it. We ask Allah to grant the court success in all good. Yes.
This questioner says he is from the Sultanate of Oman. He says: Your Eminence, the Shaykh, the father, 'Abd al-'Aziz ibn 'Abd Allah ibn Baz (may Allah preserve him). An accident happened to my uncle two months ago. He was accompanied by a man, the man's son, and my cousin. While they were on the road at the end of the night, my uncle preferred to stay overnight on the road, but his companion insisted that he continue, even though they knew the road had severe slopes and thick fog that prevented them from seeing. Suddenly, on the road, after my uncle yielded to the man, my uncle could not control the car, and it collided with the mountain, avoiding the severe slope. When the car stopped, my uncle did not find his companion or his son. When he searched for them, he found the man outside the car, having passed away, and the son had some fractures. The high probability is that he opened the door and jumped out of the car, especially after finding the door open. So what is the ruling? What is upon my uncle after the insurance company paid the blood money to the man's family? And does the ruling differ if the car threw the man out or not?
Answer:
This is a matter for the court. This is a matter for the government; the court looks into it. We ask Allah to grant the court success in all good. Yes.
Source
فضل العلم وآدابه — islamhouse.com (18:37)
The Arabic text is a machine transcription of the audio recording.