Whose responsibility is blood money (Aql) for a crime committed by an abandoned infant (Laqit) for which Aql is usually liable?

General Chapter

Al-Mughni

Book of Foundlings

Book 30 · Issue 1 · Bab 1

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The responsibility for paying the blood money for a crime committed by an abandoned infant, which would normally fall to the 'Aql (kinsmen), rests upon the public treasury (Bayt al-Mal). This is because the inheritance due to the infant belongs to him, and his maintenance is also borne by the treasury.