Is retaliation (Qisas) exacted when a person who is half-slave and half-free kills another person who is also half-slave and half-free?

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Al-Mughni

Book of Wounds

Book 47 · Issue 4 · Bab 1

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Retaliation is enacted when an individual who is half-slave and half-free kills another who is also half-slave and half-free. This is because retaliation occurs between two whole entities without division, and both parties are considered equivalent in this context.