{
 "id": "concept/umm-al-dimagh",
 "class": "concept",
 "slug": "umm-al-dimagh",
 "label": {
  "ar": "أم الدماغ",
  "en": "Umm al-dimagh (the membrane over the brain, and wounds reaching it)"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "أم الدماغ الجلدة التي تحت العظم فوق الدماغ، والشجة التي تصل إليها دون أن تخرقها تسمى آمة ومأمومة، وفيها ثلث الدية، ولا قصاص فيها عند الفقهاء. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3401}{cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3402} وإن خرقتها سميت الدامغة، وفيها آراء، وتتعلق بها أحكام الصيام إذا وصل إليها شيء. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3402}{cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3403}",
  "en": "Umm al-dimagh is the membrane under the bone above the brain. A wound that reaches it without piercing it is called amma and ma'muma, and carries a third of the diya, with no retaliation according to the jurists. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3401}{cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3402} A wound that pierces it is called damigha, and the jurists give several views on it; the membrane also bears on the fast, if something reaches it. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3402}{cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3403}"
 },
 "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 «أم الدماغ», pp.3401-3403 of the scan (ends where «أم الفروخ» begins on p.3402). 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": "أم الدماغ لغة الهامة، وقيل الجلدة الرقيقة المشتملة على الدماغ، وعند الفقهاء الجلدة التي تحت العظم فوق الدماغ، وتسمى أم الرأس وخريطة الدماغ. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3401}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "الحكم الإجمالي",
     "markdown": "- الشجة التي تصل إلى أم الدماغ دون أن تخرقها تسمى آمة ومأمومة، وفيها ثلث الدية، ولا قصاص فيها عند الفقهاء، لحديث العباس: «لا قود في المأمومة ولا الجائفة ولا المنقلة». {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3401}\n- إن خرقت الشجة أم الدماغ سميت الدامغة، وفيها آراء: أنه يجب فيها ما يجب في الآمة، وأنه يزاد حكومة، وأنه يجب فيها ما يجب في النفس. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3402}\n- إفطار الصائم بوصول شيء إلى أم الدماغ: منهم من يرى بطلان الصوم، ومنهم من لا يراه إلا إذا وصل إلى الدماغ نفسه. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3402}{cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3403}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "concept/umm-al-dimagh",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-23"
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Definition",
     "markdown": "Umm al-dimagh in the lexical sense is the skull, or the thin skin that encloses the brain. For the jurists it is the membrane under the bone above the brain, called umm al-ra's (mother of the head) and khurita al-dimagh (the sac of the brain). {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3401}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Ruling",
     "markdown": "A wound that reaches the membrane without piercing it is called amma and ma'muma, carries a third of the diya, and has no retaliation, following the hadith of Abbas that there is no retaliation for a ma'muma, a jaifa or a munqila. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3401}\nA wound that pierces it is called damigha; the jurists differ: some hold it carries the same as an amma, some add a fixed compensation, and some hold it carries the full diya for a life. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3402}\nOn the fast, some jurists hold that anything reaching the membrane breaks it, and others only if it reaches the brain itself. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3402}{cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3403}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "concept/umm-al-dimagh",
    "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": "ام الدماغ وہ جھلی ہے جو ہڈی کے نیچے اور دماغ کے اوپر ہوتی ہے۔ {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3401}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "حکم",
     "markdown": "ایسا زخم جو اس جھلی تک پہنچے مگر اسے نہ پھاڑے، اسے آمہ اور مامومہ کہتے ہیں، اس میں دیت کا تیسرا حصہ ہے، اور اس میں قصاص نہیں۔ {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3401}{cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3402}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "concept/umm-al-dimagh",
    "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/anthayan",
  "concept/aql"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}