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 "id": "concept/anthayan",
 "class": "concept",
 "slug": "anthayan",
 "label": {
  "ar": "أنثيان",
  "en": "Anthayan (the two testicles, and rulings on them)"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "الأنثيان الخصيتان. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3458} وهما من العورة المغلظة، والاختصاء حرام لنهي النبي عن الاختصاء، وفي الجناية عليهما خطأ دية، وفي العمد القصاص عند الشافعية والحنابلة والمالكية، وقال الحنفية لا قصاص فيهما. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3459} وفي قطع أنثي الحيوان أقوال بين الجواز والكراهة. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3459}{cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3460}",
  "en": "Anthayan are the two testicles. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3458} They belong to the parts of the body that must be covered, and castration is forbidden on the report of Ibn Mas'ud, who said that they asked the Prophet whether they might castrate themselves, and he forbade it. The injury to them by error carries a diya; for deliberate injury retaliation is due according to the Shafi'is, Hanbalis and Malikis, while the Hanafis deny retaliation. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3459} The jurists differ on castrating an animal between allowance and dislike. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3459}{cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3460}"
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "objects"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "global"
 ],
 "periods": [
  "period/prophetic-era"
 ],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [
  "health-body-death"
 ],
 "data": {
  "kind": "legal",
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "al-Mawsu'a al-Fiqhiyya al-Kuwaitiyya (Noor copy), headword «أنثيان», pp.3458-3459 of the scan (ends where «انحصار» and «انحلال» begin on p.3459). Footnote citations omitted.",
   "generated_by": "Claude Haiku 5.5",
   "model": "claude-haiku-5-5",
   "run": "mawsua-w02-9"
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "التعريف",
     "markdown": "الأنثيان الخصيتان، وهما في الاصطلاح بهذا المعنى. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3458}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "الحكم الإجمالي",
     "markdown": "- الأنثيان من العورة المغلظة فتأخذ حكمها. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3459}\n- الاختصاء والإخصاء والجب للإنسان حرام، لحديث عبد الله بن مسعود أنهم كانوا يغزون مع النبي وليس معهم شيء، فسألوه عن الاختصاء فنهاهم. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3459}\n- في الجناية عليهما في غير العمد الدية، وفي إحداهما نصف الدية، وإن ذهب النسل بقطع إحداهما لم يجب أكثر من نصف الدية. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3459}\n- في العمد القصاص عند الشافعية والحنابلة والمالكية، والحنفية لا يوجبون فيهما قصاصا لأنه لا يعلم له مفصل فلا يمكن استيفاء المثل. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3459}\n- قطع أنثي الحيوان: ذهب بعض الفقهاء إلى جوازه، وبعضهم إلى كراهته. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3460}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "concept/anthayan",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-23"
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Definition",
     "markdown": "Anthayan are the two testicles, the term being used in this sense in the juristic books. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3458}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Ruling",
     "markdown": "- The testicles belong to the private parts that must be covered. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3459}\n- Castration of a man is forbidden, following the report of Ibn Mas'ud, who said that when they campaigned with the Prophet with nothing, they asked whether they might castrate themselves, and he forbade it. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3459}\n- Injury to them without intent carries a diya, and for one testicle half the diya; if the injury to one ends the offspring, no more than half the diya is due. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3459}\n- For deliberate injury, retaliation is due according to the Shafi'is, Hanbalis and Malikis; the Hanafis deny it, since no exact measure of the injury can be set. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3459}\n- Castrating an animal is allowed by some jurists and disliked by others. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3460}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "concept/anthayan",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-23"
  },
  "ur": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "تعریف",
     "markdown": "انثیان یعنی دونوں خصیے۔ {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3458}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "حکم",
     "markdown": "ستر مغلظہ میں شامل ہیں؛ اختصاء (خصی کرنا) انسان کے لیے حرام ہے۔ {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3459} غیر عمد میں ان پر جنایت کی دیت ہے، اور عمد میں شافعیہ، حنابلہ اور مالکیہ کے نزدیک قصاص، جبکہ حنفیہ کے نزدیک قصاص نہیں۔ {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3459}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "concept/anthayan",
    "lang": "ur",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-23"
  }
 },
 "degree": 0,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "updated": "2026-10-23",
 "connections": [],
 "related": [
  "concept/adhm",
  "concept/afal",
  "concept/al-huzn",
  "concept/alaqa",
  "concept/alya",
  "concept/anf",
  "concept/aql",
  "concept/awar-one-eyed"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}