Sunan ad-Darimi 204

Translation

✧ I witnessed Shurayh when a man from Murad came to him and said, "O Abu Umayyah, what is the blood money for the fingers?" He said, "Ten each." He said, "Glory be to Allah! Are these two equal?" He brought together the little finger and the thumb. Shurayh said, "Glory be to Allah! Are your ear and your hand equal? For the ear is covered by hair, the cap, and the turban, and it has half the blood money, while the hand has half the blood money. Woe to you! The Sunnah precedes your analogy, so follow and do not innovate, for you will not go astray as long as you hold to the tradition." Abu Bakr said: Al-Sha'bi said to me, "O Hudhali, if your most eloquent man were killed along with this infant in his cradle, would their blood money be equal?" I said, "Yes." He said, "Then where is analogy?"

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