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Summary
Malik said: if a group beats a man to death under their hands, they are all killed for him. If he dies after their beating, the oath of fifty applies. If the oath of fifty applies only to one man, and no one else is killed, we know of no oath of fifty that applied to more than one man. 1
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Belongs to the Muwatta, Book of Qasama. Source: the Muwatta. Mentions Malik ibn Anas. Built on in the chapters on qasama and qawad.
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Sources
- Muwatta, recension of Yahya ibn Yahya al-Laythi (ed. Bashar Awwad Ma'ruf) , p.457
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islam.museum contributors. “Muwatta 2584”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/passage/muwatta-30-2584/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-17.