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Summary
Malik said: the best that has been heard in interpreting the verse of al-Baqara about the free for the free, the slave for the slave, and the female for the female: retaliation applies between females as it applies between males; a free woman is killed for a free woman as a free man is killed for a free man, and a slave-woman is killed for a slave-woman as a slave is killed for a slave. Retaliation also applies between men and women, because God reasoned in the verse of al-Ma'ida that the soul is for the soul; so the soul of a free woman is for the soul of a free man, and her wound for his wound. 1
Place in the museum
Belongs to the Muwatta, Book of Blood-Money (uqul). Source: the Muwatta. Mentions Malik ibn Anas. Built on in the chapters on retaliation (qisas).
Connections
- Part of
- Muwatta, Book of blood-money (uqul)
- Mentions
- Malik ibn Anas
- Basis for
- retaliation (qisas)
- Related to
- Qur'an 2:178· Qur'an 5:45
People and things also explored
Muwatta 2458· Muwatta 2459· Muwatta 2460· Muwatta 2461· Muwatta 2462· Muwatta 2463· Muwatta 2464· Muwatta 2465
Sources
- Muwatta, recension of Yahya ibn Yahya al-Laythi (ed. Bashar Awwad Ma'ruf) , p.445
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islam.museum contributors. “Muwatta 2560”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/passage/muwatta-29-2560/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-17.