Legal Punishments, Retaliation & Blood Money

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prescribed Punishments (Kitab Al-Hudud)

Anas said : I saw one of them biting the earth with this mouth (teeth) on account of thirst and this they died.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prescribed Punishments (Kitab Al-Hudud)

He then forbade disfiguring. This version does not mention the words “ from opposite sides” . This tradition has been narrated by Shu’bah from Qatadah and Salam bin Miskin from Thabit on the authority of Anas. They did not mention...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prescribed Punishments (Kitab Al-Hudud)

Some people raided the camels of the Prophet (ﷺ), drove them off, and apostatised. They killed the herdsman of the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) who was a believer. He (the Prophet) sent (people) in pursuit of them and they were...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prescribed Punishments (Kitab Al-Hudud)

When the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) cut off (the hands and feet of) those who had stolen his camels and he had their eyes put out by fire (heated nails), Allah reprimanded him on that (action), and Allah, the Exalted,...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prescribed Punishments (Kitab Al-Hudud)

This happened before the prescribed punishments(hudud) were revealed, meaning the tradition of Anas.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prescribed Punishments (Kitab Al-Hudud)

The verse "The punishment of those who wage war against Allah and His Apostle, and strive with might and main for mischief through the land is execution, or crucifixion, or the cutting off of hands and feet from opposite side...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prescribed Punishments (Kitab Al-Hudud)

The Quraish were anxious about the Makhzumi woman who had committed theft, They said : Who will speak to the Messenger of Allah(ﷺ) about her ? Then they said: Who will be bold enough for it but Uasmah bin Zaid,...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prescribed Punishments (Kitab Al-Hudud)

A Makhzumi woman used to borrow goods and deny having received them, so the prophet (ﷺ) gave orders that her hand should be cut off. The narrator than transmitted the rest of the tradition like that of al-laith, saying :...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prescribed Punishments (Kitab Al-Hudud)

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) Said: Forgive the people of good qualities their slips, but not faults to which prescribed penalties apply.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prescribed Punishments (Kitab Al-Hudud)

The Prophet (ﷺ) said: Forgive the infliction of prescribed penalties among yourselves, for any prescribed penalty of which I hear must be carried out.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prescribed Punishments (Kitab Al-Hudud)

Ma'iz came to the Prophet (ﷺ) and admitted (having committed adultery) four times in his presence so he ordered him to be stoned to death, but said to Huzzal: If you had covered him with your garment, it would have...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prescribed Punishments (Kitab Al-Hudud)

Huzzal had ordered Ma’iz to go to the prophet (ﷺ) and tell him(about his having committed adultery).

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prescribed Punishments (Kitab Al-Hudud)

When a woman went out in the time of the Prophet (ﷺ) for prayer, a man attacked her and overpowered (raped) her. She shouted and he went off, and when a man came by, she said: That (man) did such...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prescribed Punishments (Kitab Al-Hudud)

A thief who had accepted (having committed theft) was brought to the Prophet (ﷺ), but no good were found with him. The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ), said to him: I do not think you have stolen. He said: Yes, I...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prescribed Punishments (Kitab Al-Hudud)

A man came to the prophet (ﷺ) and said : Messenger of Allah ! I have committed a crime which involves prescribed punishment so inflict it on me . He said : Have you not performed ablution when you came?...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prescribed Punishments (Kitab Al-Hudud)

Some goods of the people of Kila' were stolen. They accused some men of the weavers (of theft). They came to an-Nu'man ibn Bashir, the companion of the Prophet (ﷺ). He confined them for some days and then set them...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prescribed Punishments (Kitab Al-Hudud)

The prophet (ﷺ) used to cut off a thief’s hand for a quarter of a dinar and upwards.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prescribed Punishments (Kitab Al-Hudud)

A thief’s hand should be cut off for a quarter of a dinar and upwards. Ahmed b. Salih said: The amputation (of a thief’s hand) is for a quarter of a dinar and upwards.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prescribed Punishments (Kitab Al-Hudud)

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) had thief’s hand cut off for a shield worth three dirhams.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Prescribed Punishments (Kitab Al-Hudud)

The Prophet (ﷺ) had a man's hand cut off who had stolen from the place reserved for women a shield whose price was three dirhams.