Is the liability determined by the number of testimonies or the number of individuals involved when calculating the distribution of financial compensation?
General Chapter
Al-Mughni
Book of Judicial Rulings
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An alternative possibility suggests that the witnesses to Ahsan are only liable for half of the Diyah, based on the premise that each of the two Ahsan witnesses committed two distinct offenses, while each of the other two committed only one. Therefore, the Diyah should be distributed based on the number of heads (individuals) involved, not the number of offenses committed. This is analogous to a case where two individuals injure one person, one inflicting one wound and the other two wounds; the liability is shared by head count, not by the severity of the wounds.