[Machine] Then he summoned the brother of the murdered person and gave him the blood money without his father's knowledge. He said, "I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say, 'The killer has no right.'"
ثُمَّ دَعَا أَخَا الْمَقْتُولِ فَأَعْطَاهَا إِيَّاهُ دُونَ أَبِيهِوَقَالَ سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ لَيْسَ لِقَاتِلٍ شَيْءٌ
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ʿUmar ؓ said. Were it not that I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say, “The killer gets nothing (from the estate of the one he murdered),ʿ I would have included you among the heirs. And he called the maternal uncle of the one who had been killed and gave the camels to him. It was narrated from Mujahid bin Jabr... and he mentioned the same Hadeeth. He said: ʿUmar (4) took thirty three year-old she-camels, thirty four year-old she-camels and forty she camels between the ages of five and eight years, all of which were pregnant, then he called the brother of the one who had been killed and gave them to him, not to his father. And he said: I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say: “The killer gets nothing.ʿ
سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ لَيْسَ لِقَاتِلٍشَيْءٌ لَوَرَّثْتُكَ قَالَ وَدَعَا أَخَا الْمَقْتُولِ فَأَعْطَاهُ الْإِبِلَ