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The punishment is recorded in number of traditions and the practice of Muhammad stands as an authentic source supporting it. This is the view held by all Companions, Successors and other Muslim scholars with the exception of Kharijites." [39] Hanbali Islamic law sentences all forms of consensual but religiously illegal sex as punishable with Rajm.
Iran's penal code contains stoning as a possible form of punishment and allows punishment to be based on fiqh (traditional Islamic jurisprudence), which includes provisions for stoning. [24] Although the Iranian judiciary officially placed a moratorium on stoning in 2002, various instances of stonings in Iran have been documented since then.
Islamic educationalist Hamid Baalla agreed, saying, "You cannot describe people who resort to such actions as Muslim. These people are radicals and extremists." [ 21 ] It was described as "inhumane, barbarous" by Moroccan Organization for Human Rights President Amina Bouayache and as "an act of terrorism towards the Somali people, particularly ...
Apostasy (riddah, ردة or irtidad, ارتداد), leaving Islam for another religion or for atheism, [38] [39] is regarded as one of hudud crimes liable to capital punishment in traditional Maliki, Hanbali and Shia jurisprudence, but not in Hanafi and Shafi'i fiqh as the hudud are a kaffarah for the hudud offences, though these schools all ...
Du'a Khalil Aswad (دعاء خليل أسود) (c. 1989 – c. 7 April 2007) was a 17-year-old Iraqi girl of the Yazidi faith who was stoned to death in Bashiqa, Ninawa, northern Iraq in early April 2007, the victim of an honor killing.
In Islam, Jahannam (Arabic: جهنم) is the place of punishment for evildoers in the afterlife, or hell. [1] This notion is an integral part of Islamic theology, [1] and has occupied an important place in the Muslim belief. [2]
A stoning of the Devil from 1942. The Stoning of the Devil (Arabic: رمي الجمرات ramy al-jamarāt, lit. "throwing of the jamarāt [place of pebbles]") [1] [2] [3] is part of the annual Islamic Hajj pilgrimage to the holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia.
According to some scholars, the Black Stone was the same stone that Islamic tradition describes as greeting Muhammad before his prophethood. This led to a debate about whether the Black Stone's greeting comprised actual speech or merely a sound, and following that, whether the stone was a living creature or an inanimate object.