BOOK 16. KITAB AL-QASAMA WA'L-MUHARABA
WA'L QISAS WA'L-DIYAT
(Pertaining To The Oath, For Establishing The Resposibility Of Murders, Fighting, Requital And Blood-Wit )

1. Al-Qasamah
2. Pertainiing to the combatants and apostates
3. The justification of Qisas (retribution) when one is killed with stone or any other heavy thing and killing of a male for the murder of a female
4. When anyone attacks the life of a person, or his limb and the victim wards off the attack and in self-defence either the life of the assailant is lost or his limb broken, there would be no penalty on the victim
5. The veracity of retribution In case of a tooth
6. When it is permissible to take the life of a Muslim
7. He who sheds the blood first of all bears the burden of all subsequent murders
8. The (cases of) bloodshed would be decided first of all on the day of judgment
9. The confession of murder is held valid and the person whose man is killed is entitled to get retribution, the offender has a right to beg for remission
10. Blood-wit of the child in the womb; and the essentiality of blood-with in case of unintentional murder and in case of the quasi-intentional murder