al-Hasan al-Basri الحسن البصري · The Chapters on Legal Punishments

“A legal punishment that is carried out in the land is better for the people of that land than if it were to rain for forty days.”

“Whoever denies a Verse of the Qur'an, it is permissible to strike his neck (i.e., execute him) Whoever says, Lailaha illallahu wahduhu la sharika lahu, wa anna Muhammadan `abduhu wa rasuluhu (None has the right to be worshiped but Allah (SWT) alone, and Muhammad (ﷺ) is His slave and Messenger), no one has any was of harming him, unless he (does something which) deserves a legal punishment, and it is carried out on him.”

“The hand is not to be cut off for (stealing) produce or the spadix of palm trees.”

“The hand is not to be cut off for (stealing) produce or the spadix of palm trees.”