Wirk (the hip; tawarruk and retaliation)

وَرِك

Wirk (hip) in the lexicon is the joint between the thigh and the leg; a person has two, above the thighs, and the technical sense does not depart from this. ¹² Sitting with the hip down (tawarruk) in the tashahhud is recommended in general. The Malikis apply it to every sitting in prayer; the Shafi'is and Hanbalis to the final tashahhud; the Hanbalis do not apply it to prayers with only one tashahhud, such as dawn and Friday prayers; the Hanafis prescribe spreading the leg (iftirash) for men and tawarruk for women. ²³ The Hanbalis differ on tawarruk in the tashahhud after forgetfulness prostrations; al-Qadi applies it in every such tashahhud. ³ On retaliation, the jurists agree in general that a leg cut at its root in the hip is subject to retaliation, since equal cutting is possible, once the general conditions for retaliation on limbs are met. ³ On the blood-money for a leg cut at the hip there is disagreement: the majority of Malikis and Hanbalis and Abu Yusuf hold that the full sum of fifty camels applies, as in the report of Amr ibn Hazm (may God be pleased with him); Abu Hanifa, Muhammad, the Shafi'is and al-Qadi among the Hanbalis add an assessed compensation for the part above the ankles to the sum for the foot. ³⁴ When a leg is cut at the ankle and then at the knee or hip, an assessed compensation is owed for the second cut by agreement. ⁴