Is the one who causes accidental killing required to pay the blood money and the expiation?
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Question:
Yes, and another says: This is the fourth time the brother presents this. I am a livestock owner, and I submitted a request to the government for boys to tend the sheep. The government agreed to two boys, and I went to Syria in a private car. While on the road, the time for the midday prayer came, so I stopped and prayed alone. I did the same for the afternoon prayer and the sunset prayer. The two mentioned did not pray in these three times. About half an hour after the sunset prayer, I was involved in an accident within the borders of Saudi Arabia. As a result of the accident, the two workers died, and I survived. Then the heirs of the deceased came, and I paid the blood money to their heirs. I hope you will benefit me by telling me whether I have to fast or not? Please note that it is written in the funeral record of the deceased that they were Muslims, but I saw three obligatory prayers that they did not perform. May Allah reward you with good.
Answer:
If you were the cause of their death by overturning or collision, and you were ordered to pay the blood money which you have paid, then you must perform the expiation. It is not a condition for the expiation that they be Muslims. The expiation for the killer is required even if they are not Muslims, provided they are non-Muslims granted safe conduct who entered under a guarantee. Allah the Exalted said:[An-Nisa 4:92] So let them observe the rights of the people of the Book and bear the burden of a believing woman. Thus, it is not a condition for the expiation that the victim be Muslim. If he was Muslim, a non-Muslim granted safe conduct, or a person under a treaty, then you must perform both the expiation and pay the debt, if you were the cause of the killing, whether by haste and speed or by other means that make you liable for the blood money and the expiation. Yes. And this is an amount for the Afghan mujahideen: one hundred riyals. May Allah accept it from you.
Yes, and another says: This is the fourth time the brother presents this. I am a livestock owner, and I submitted a request to the government for boys to tend the sheep. The government agreed to two boys, and I went to Syria in a private car. While on the road, the time for the midday prayer came, so I stopped and prayed alone. I did the same for the afternoon prayer and the sunset prayer. The two mentioned did not pray in these three times. About half an hour after the sunset prayer, I was involved in an accident within the borders of Saudi Arabia. As a result of the accident, the two workers died, and I survived. Then the heirs of the deceased came, and I paid the blood money to their heirs. I hope you will benefit me by telling me whether I have to fast or not? Please note that it is written in the funeral record of the deceased that they were Muslims, but I saw three obligatory prayers that they did not perform. May Allah reward you with good.
Answer:
If you were the cause of their death by overturning or collision, and you were ordered to pay the blood money which you have paid, then you must perform the expiation. It is not a condition for the expiation that they be Muslims. The expiation for the killer is required even if they are not Muslims, provided they are non-Muslims granted safe conduct who entered under a guarantee. Allah the Exalted said:
and if he was from a people with whom you have a treaty
وَإِن كَانَ مِن قَوْمٍ بَيْنَكُمْ وَبَيْنَهُم مِّيثَاقٌ
Source
قناة «فضيلة الشيخ ابن باز Alsheikh Binbaz»، 25 هل المتسبب في القتل الخطأ تلزمه الدية والكفارة؟ للإمام ابن باز — youtube.com
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