Blood Money
ضا، فقه الرضا عليه السلام وَ أَمَّا كَفَّارَةُ الدَّمِ فَعَلَى مَنْ قَتَلَ مُؤْمِناً مُتَعَمِّداً أَنْ يُقَادَ بِهِ فَإِنْ عَفَا عَنْهُ وَ قُبِلَتْ مِنْهُ الدِّيَةُ فَعَلَيْهِ التَّوْبَةُ وَ الِاسْتِغْفَارُ وَ مَنْ قَتَلَ مُؤْمِناً خَطَأً فَعَلَيْهِ عِتْقُ رَقَبَةٍ مُؤْمِنَةٍ أَوْ صَوْمُ شَهْرَيْنِ مُتَتَابِعَيْنِ أَوْ إِطْعَامُ سِتِّينَ مِسْكِيناً وَ دِيَةٌ مُسَلَّمَةٌ إِلَى أَهْلِهِ فَإِنْ لَمْ يَكُنْ لَهُ مَالٌ أُخِذَ مِنْ عَاقِلَتِهِ
(The book) ‘Fiqh Al-Reza-asws’, may the greeting be upon him-asws – ‘And as for expiation of the blood, it is upon the one who kills a Momin deliberately if he is retaliated with. If he is pardoned from it and ‘الدِّيَةُ’ the wergild is accepted from him. Upon him is the repentance and seeking the Forgiveness, and the one who kills a Momin accidentally, upon him is to free a Momin slave, or fasting two months consecutively, or feeding sixty needy ones, and ‘دِيَةٌ’ wergild of a Muslim to his family. If there does not happen to be any wealth it would be taken from his relatives’.[1]
[1] Bihar Al-Anwaar V 101 – The Book of Rulings – CH 36 H 45