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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."
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 ...
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).
4-5 Punishment for defaming virtuous women; 6-10 Law relating to charge of adultery when made by a husband against his wife; 11-20 Aisha's slanderers reproved, and their punishment; 21 Believers warned against evil deeds; 22 The rich to forgive the poor, and bestow charity upon them; 23-25 False accusers of virtuous women for ever accursed
The most debated issue is over the exception to the ban on divorce, which the KJV translates as "saving for the cause of fornication." The Koine Greek word in the exception is πορνείας /porneia, this has variously been translated to specifically mean adultery, to mean any form of marital immorality, or to a narrow definition of marriages already invalid by law.
[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 ...
Ibn Ḥajar al-Haythamī (d. 974/1567) found 467 major sins, and "often-quoted definition attributed" to "companion of the prophet" and mufassir Abd Allah ibn Abbas (d. 68/686–8), states that a major sin is "everything for which God has prescribed a fixed punishment in this world and the Fire in the hereafter", [21] bringing the number closer ...
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 ...