Category:The Book of The Oath of Qasama in Muwata Malik

List of Chapters in The Book of The Oath of Qasama

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The Book of The Oath of Qasama Summary

1. Yahya related to me from Malik from Abu Layla ibn Abdullah ibnAbd ar Rahman ibn Sahl from Sahl ibn Abi Hathma that some of the greatmen of his people informed him that Abdullah ibn Sahl and Muhayyisawent out to Khaybar because extreme poverty had overtaken them
2. TheMessenger of Allah may Allah bless him and grant him peace wrotethat to them and they wrote By Allah we did not kill him TheMessenger of Allah may Allah bless him and grant him peace said toHuwayyisa Muhayyisa and Abd ar Rahman Do you swear and claim theblood of your companion They said No
3. Yahya said from Malik from Yahya ibn Said that Bushayr ibn Yasarinformed him that Abdullah ibn Sahl al Ansari and Muhayyisa ibn Masudwent out to Khaybar and they separated on their various businessesand Abdullah ibn Sahl was killed
4. The Messenger of Allah may Allah bless him and grant himpeace said Will you acquit the jews for fifty oaths They said Messenger of Allah how can we accept the oaths of a people who arekafirun Yahya ibn Said said Bushayr ibn Yasar claimedthat the Messenger of Allah may Allah bless him and grant him peace paid the blood money from his own property
5. Malik said Thegenerally agreed on way of doing things in our community and thatwhich I heard from whoever I am content with concerning the oath ofqasama and upon which the past and present imams agree is that thosewho claim revenge begin with the oaths and swear
6. Malik said If those who make the claim swear they deserve the blood of their kinsman and whoever they swear againstis slain
7. Yahya said Malik said about a peopleof whom a certain number are suspected of murder and the relatives ofthe murdered man ask them to take oaths and they are numerous so theyask that each man swears fifty oaths on his own behalf
8. The oaths arenot divided out between them according to their number and they arenot acquitted unless each man among them swears fifty oaths on his ownbehalf
9. Malik said If the paternal relatives ormawali pardon after they demand blood and the women refuse and say We will not abandon our right against the murderer of our companion the women are more entitled to that because whoever takes retaliationis more entitled than the one who leaves it among the women andpaternal relatives when the murder is established and killingobliged
10. Yahya said that Malik said The way of doing things in ourcommunity about Yahya said that Malik said The procedure in swearingin manslaughter is that those who claim blood swear and it becomes dueby their swearing
11. That is because the blood money isnot established as due without there being fifty oaths and the blood money is not established as due unless the responsibility for theblood is established

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