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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 punishment, a form of capital punishment for adultery, is not mentioned in the canonical text of the Quran. [21] Most of the rules related to fornication, adultery and false accusations from a husband to his wife or from members of the community to chaste women, can be found in Surah an-Nur (the Light).
Hadd (literally "limit" [10]) under Sharia, are rules stated in the Quran and the Hadiths, and whose violation is deemed in Islam as a crime against God, and requires a fixed punishment. Hadd crimes include [ 11 ] theft , illicit sexual relations or rape, making unproven accusations of illicit sex, drinking intoxicants like alcohol, apostasy ...
Classical Islamic law defined what today is commonly called "rape" as a coercive form of fornication or adultery (zināʾ). [10]This basic definition of rape as "coercive zināʾ" meant that all the normal legal principles that pertained to zināʾ – its definition, punishment, and establishment through evidence – were also applicable to rape; the prototypical act of zināʾ was defined as ...
[1] [not specific enough to verify] [2] [not specific enough to verify] Crimes according to the sharīʿa law which could result in capital punishment include, murder, rape, adultery, homosexuality [citation needed], etc. [3] [4] Death penalty is in use in many Muslim-majority countries, where it is utilised as sharīʿa-prescribed punishment ...
A number of different words for sin are used in the Islamic tradition. According to A. J. Wensinck's entry on the topic in the Encyclopedia of Islam, Islamic terms for sin include dhanb and khaṭīʾa, which are synonymous and refer to intentional sins; khiṭʾ, which means simply a sin; and ithm, which is used for grave sins.
Under Islamic law, it is the prescribed punishment in cases of adultery committed by a married man or married woman. The conviction requires a confession from either the adulterer/adulteress, the testimony of four witnesses (as prescribed by the Quran in Surah an-Nur verse 4), or pregnancy outside of marriage.
Islamic law divides crimes into three different categories depending on the offense – Hudud (crimes "against God", [1] whose punishment is fixed in the Quran and the Hadiths), Qisas (crimes against an individual or family whose punishment is equal retaliation in the Quran and the Hadiths), and Tazir (crimes whose punishment is not specified ...