Sahih al-Bukhari Hadith 654 – Volume 7, Book 71

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Volume 7, Book 71, Number 654:
Narrated Abu Huraira :
Allah's Apostle gave his verdict about two ladies of the Hudhail tribe who had fought each other
and one of them had hit the other with a stone. The stone hit her abdomen and as she was pregnant,
the blow killed the child in her womb. They both filed their case with the Prophet and he judged that
the blood money for what was in her womb. was a slave or a female slave. The guardian of the lady
who was fined said, "O Allah's Apostle! Shall I be fined for a creature that has neither drunk nor
eaten, neither spoke nor cried? A case like that should be nullified." On that the Prophet said, "This is
one of the brothers of soothsayers.