حَدَّثَنَا سُلَيْمَانُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ التَّمَّارُ أَنَّ عَمْرَو بْنَ طَلْحَةَ حَدَّثَهُمْ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا أَسْبَاطٌ عَنْ سِمَاکٍ عَنْ عِکْرِمَةَ عَنْ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ فِي قِصَّةِ حَمَلِ بْنِ مَالِکٍ قَالَ فَأَسْقَطَتْ غُلَامًا قَدْ نَبَتَ شَعْرُهُ مَيِّتًا وَمَاتَتْ الْمَرْأَةُ فَقَضَی عَلَی الْعَاقِلَةِ الدِّيَةَ فَقَالَ عَمُّهَا إِنَّهَا قَدْ أَسْقَطَتْ يَا نَبِيَّ اللَّهِ غُلَامًا قَدْ نَبَتَ شَعْرُهُ فَقَالَ أَبُو الْقَاتِلَةِ إِنَّهُ کَاذِبٌ إِنَّهُ وَاللَّهِ مَا اسْتَهَلَّ وَلَا شَرِبَ وَلَا أَکَلَ فَمِثْلُهُ يُطَلُّ فَقَالَ النَّبِيُّ صَلَّی اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ أَسَجْعَ الْجَاهِلِيَّةِ وَکَهَانَتَهَا أَدِّ فِي الصَّبِيِّ غُرَّةً قَالَ ابْنُ عَبَّاسٍ کَانَ اسْمُ إِحْدَاهُمَا مُلَيْکَةَ وَالْأُخْرَی أُمَّ غُطَيْفٍ
سنن ابودوٗد · Hadith 4574
Narrated Abdullah ibn Abbas: About the story of Haml ibn Malik, Ibn Abbas said: She aborted a child who had grown hair and was dead, and the woman also died. He (the Prophet) gave judgment that the blood-wit was to be paid by the woman's relatives on the father's side. Her uncle said: Messenger of Allah! She has aborted a child who had grown hair. The father of the woman who had slain said: He is a liar: I swear by Allah, he did not raise his voice, or drink or eat. No compensation is to be paid for an offence like this. The Prophet ﷺ said: is it a rhymed prose of pre-Islamic Arabia and its soothsaying? Pay a male or female slave of the best quality in compensation for the child. Ibn Abbas said: The name of one of them was Mulaikah, and the name of the other was Umm Ghutaif.
Translated by Dr. Muhammad Muhsin Khan · Reviewed by Islamic University of Madinah · Published March 2020