Diyah

Blood money: compensation paid to a victim's family for a killing or an injury.

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The meaning

What Diyah means in Islam

The Qur'an prescribes it for accidental killing, alongside the freeing of a slave, and it is also what a family receives when they waive qisas for a deliberate one. The classical measure is one hundred camels, which jurists converted into gold, silver or currency, with fixed fractions for the loss of an eye, a hand or a tooth. In the classical rules the payment falls on the killer's kin group, the 'aqilah, an early form of shared insurance.

Evidence · Qur’an · Stated directly in the Qur’an

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Words that sit beside it

QisasEqual retaliation for murder or injury, which the victim's family may always waive for compensation.قِصاص
HududThe small set of fixed penalties named in revelation, hedged about with very strict proof.حُدود
AmanahA trust: anything placed in your care that you must return, or use exactly as agreed.أَمانة
FiqhThe human effort to work out Islamic law from its sources, and the rulings that result.الفِقْه