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- The Prophetic Era
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Summary
Mamumah, in lexicon, is a wound on the head that reaches the membrane which covers the brain; it is also called amma, and its plural is awam or mamumat. Shajja, the general term for head and face wounds, is wider, since the mamumah is one kind of the shajaj of the face and head 1. The jurists hold that the mamumah carries a third of the blood-money, on the report of Amr ibn Hazm that the Prophet said a third of the blood-money is due for the mamumah, a report several scholars have called sound 2. Details are under blood-money and head-wounds 2.
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Sources
- al-Mawsu'a al-Fiqhiyya al-Kuwaitiyya, Noor-Book copy (file named v3) , p.13782-13783
- al-Mawsu'a al-Fiqhiyya al-Kuwaitiyya, Noor-Book copy (file named v3) , p.13783
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islam.museum contributors. “Mamumah (a head wound reaching the membrane of the brain)”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/concept/mamuma-fiqh/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-23.