Explanation of the Book of Inheritance, Fixed Punishments, and Blood Money-10b

The reciter: Qutaybah ibn Sa'id narrated to us, and Jarir narrated to us from al-A'mash from Abu Wa'il from 'Amr ibn Sharahbil, who said: 'Abdullah said: قال رجل: يا رسول الله، أي الذنب أكبر عند الله؟ قال: أن تدعو لله ندا وهو خلقك قال: ثم أي؟ قال: ثم أن تقتل ولدك خشية أن يطعم معك قال: ثم أي؟ قال: ثم أن تزاني حليلة جارك فأنزل الله عز وجل تصديقها: والذين لا يدعون مع الله إلها آخر ولا يقتلون النفس التي حرم الله إلا بالحق ولا يزنون ومن يفعل ذلك يلق أثاما A man said: "O Messenger of Allah, which sin is the greatest in the sight of Allah?" He said: "That you invoke a partner alongside Allah, and He is the One who created you." He said: "Then what?" He said: "Then that you kill your child for fear that it will eat with you." He said: "Then what?" He said: "Then that you commit unlawful sexual intercourse with your neighbor's wife." So Allah the Mighty and Majestic revealed in confirmation of this: "And those who do not invoke any deity other than Allah, and do not kill the soul which Allah has forbidden except by right, and do not commit unlawful sexual intercourse. And whoever does that will meet a great sin."

The Shaykh : This hadith is clear in meaning, except for the phrase: , for this qualifier is general and not a qualifier that excludes what is other than it. And on this basis, if he killed his child for a reason other than this, the ruling is the same. But this is like His saying: , because the meaning of the verse is not to kill them in other cases, but because this was the common practice among the people of the pre-Islamic age of ignorance, Allah the Exalted mentioned it. Yes, good. And His saying: "The Book of Blood Money", blood money (diyat) is the plural of diyah, and it is the money paid to the victim in the case of the soul and what is less than it. This diyah is the money paid to the victim in the case of the soul and what is less than it. Then it may be fixed or it may not be fixed, as will become clear, if Allah wills. Yes.