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The punishment of stoning/Rajm or capital punishment for adultery is unique in Islamic law in that it conflicts with the Qur'anic prescription for premarital and extramarital sex [9] [1] found in Surah An-Nur, 2: "The woman and the man guilty of adultery or fornication — flog each of them with a hundred stripes."
Stoning and Islam Archived 2013-09-27 at the Wayback Machine; Extract of the Kitab Al-Hudud (The book pertaining to punishments prescribed by Islam) Khaleej Times Archived 2012-05-09 at the Wayback Machine (United Arab Emirates: Fujairah Shariah court orders man to be stoned to death for adultery – 11 June 2006) Muslims against stoning
The Stoning of an Adulteress, illustration to a manuscript of 1001 Nights by Abu'l Hasan Ghaffari or his atelier. Tehran, 1853–1857. The public lashing punishment for fornication and adultery are also prescribed in Hadiths, the books most trusted in Islam after Quran, particularly in Kitab Al-Hudud. [24] [25] [not specific enough to verify]
The account of the ordeal of bitter water is given in the Book of Numbers: Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, "Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, 'If any man's wife goes astray and is unfaithful to him, and a man lies sexually with her, and it is hidden from the eyes of her husband, and she is undetected; but she has defiled herself, and there is no witness against her, and she has ...
Adultery with a married woman. [19] Both parties are to die. Marrying one's wife's mother. [20] This was in addition to one's wife; death is by burning. Certain forms of incest, namely if it involves the father's wife or a daughter-in-law. [21]
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 20 February 2025. Type of extramarital sex This article is about the act of adultery or extramarital sex. For other uses, see Adultery (disambiguation). For a broad overview, see Religion and sexuality. Illustration depicting an adulterous wife, circa 1800 Sex and the law Social issues Abortion Access to ...
In the first case, a punishment of stoning to death (lapidation) for adultery is found in the Islamic law of the founders of all four surviving schools of Sunni fiqh and by the majority of scholars of fiqh, but the penalty prescribed for adultery in the mus'haf is flogging (in Q.24:2).
Jesus and the woman taken in adultery (or the Pericope Adulterae) [a] is considered by many to be a pseudepigraphical [1] [2]: 489 passage found in John 7:53–8:11 [3] of the New Testament. In the passage, Jesus was teaching in the Temple after coming from the Mount of Olives .