Who is liable for blood money ('Aql) when the manumitter is a woman and injures a relative of her former master?
Chapter on Inheritance of Wala'
Al-Mughni
Book of Walā' (Patronage)
Primary text
If the manumitter was a woman, her son is not liable for blood money ('Aql) for an injury inflicted upon the paternal relatives of her master. Instead, the liability falls upon her own paternal relatives ('Asabat) from her lineage. This is based on a ruling by Omar concerning the freed slave of Safiyyah, where he ruled that Ali (her nephew) inherited the freed slave's property but the 'Aql fell upon Ali's lineage, not upon him directly, because women do not pay 'Aql and the master's son is not considered part of her lineage for this purpose.
Supporting text
A man who frees a slave is liable for 'Aql for his freed slave because he is a paternal relative ('Asaba) responsible for 'Aql. Similarly, his son and father are liable as they are his paternal relatives and lineage. Therefore, the son of a male manumitter is not excluded from liability for 'Aql as the son of a female manumitter might be.