if the doctor makes a mistake in cauterizing or cutting or splitting it and it is where it should not be or cuts a vein that should not be cut or slows it down where it should not be slowed down or gives something to drink that is not safe to drink or exceeds its capacity and dies from that then he is liable even if he is a doctor known for medicine and his insight into it because it is a crime of his hand by mistake and that is on his blood money if what he has done exceeds onethird of the blood money and there is no punishment for him because he did not estimate it out of ignorance and he did not do it deliberately with his hand or his heart until his hand slipped in making it or his iron because of its speed.
فأما إذا أخطأ الطبيب في كيه، أو بطه، أو شقه فيكون حيث لا يكون، أو يقطع عرقا لا يقطع، أو يبط حيث لا يبط، أو يسقي ما لا يؤمن شربه، أو يجاوز قدره فيموت من ذلك فهو ضامن، وإن كان طبيبا معروفا بالطب وبالبصر به لأنه جناية يده بخطأ، وذلك على عاقلته إذا جاوز ما أصاب ثلث الدية، ولا عقوبة عليه لأنه لم يقدر بجهل، ولم يتعمد بيد، ولا بقلب حتى زلت يده في جعلها أو حديده لسرعتها.