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A car driver is driving his car at the usual speed and the car overturned and the passenger died.

Fatwa No: 24211
Date: 2026/04/28
Answered by: System Fatwa Committee
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Question: A car driver, with a passenger riding with him, is driving his car at the usual speed on a non-asphalted road. On the route he is travelling, there is a ridge (ʿurm) between the tracks of the two wheels, and the car was jolted by that ridge and overturned, and the passenger died. Is the driver required to perform kaffārah for killing, given that he was driving at the customary speed for people of cars in such a place and with that type of car – indeed, even less than that?

The answer is that what appears to me – and Allah knows best – is that the driver of the car is not required to perform kaffārah. The proof for that is what we have mentioned in the answer to the first question.

Source: Min Thimār al-ʿIlm wa al-Ḥikmah vol.2