Legal Punishments, Retaliation & Blood Money

Bulugh al-Maram

Crimes (Qisas or Retaliation)

'Imran bin Husain (RAA) narrated, ’Ya’la bin Umaiyah fought with another man. One of them bit the other man’s finger and the latter (whose finger was bit) pulled his hand out of the first man’s mouth (who was biting) by...

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Crimes (Qisas or Retaliation)

“If anyone spies on you (tries to look at you) without your permission, and you thereupon throw a stone at him and because of it he lost his eye, you are not to be bIamed.” Agreed upon. In another version...

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Crimes (Qisas or Retaliation)

Al-Bara bin 'Azib (RAA) narrated, ‘The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) ordained that the guarding of a garden is the responsibility of its owners during the day and the guarding of animals is the responsibility of their owners at night. However,...

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Crimes (Qisas or Retaliation)

Mu’adh bin Jabal (RAA) narrated - concerning a man who embraced Islam and then turned to Judaism (i.e. apostated), ‘I shall not sit down until he is killed. That is the Command of Allah and His Messenger, and he gave...

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Crimes (Qisas or Retaliation)

Ibn 'Abbas (RAA) narrated that The Messenger of Allah said, “He who changes his religion (i.e. apostates) kill him.” Related by Al-Bukhari.

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Crimes (Qisas or Retaliation)

Ibn 'Abbas (RAA) narrated, ‘A blind man had a pregnant slave, who used to abuse the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) and defame him. The blind man forbade her but she did not stop. One night she began to slander the...

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Hudud

"Speak." He said, 'My son was a laborer working for that man (the Bedouin) and he committed illegal sexual intercourse with his wife, and I was informed that my son deserved to be stoned to death (as punishment for this...

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Hudud

"Receive from me (this revelation), receive from me (this revelation). Allah has ordained a way for those women (unmarried females who committed adultery). When an unmarried man, commits adultery with an unmarried woman, they should receive one hundred lashes and...

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Hudud

"Take him away and stone him (to death)." Agreed upon.

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Hudud

Ibn 'Abbas (RAA) narrated, 'When Ma'iz came to the Prophet (ﷺ) (admitting that he had committed adultery), he said to him, "Perhaps you have just kissed, or touched or looked (at the woman)." Ma'iz said,'No, O Messenger of Allah.' Related...

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Hudud

'Umar bin al-Khattab (RAA) narrated that he addressed the people and said, 'Verily Allah has sent Muhammad with the Truth and sent down the Book to him, and the verse of stoning was included in what Allah sent down. We...

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Hudud

Abu Hurairah (RAA) narrated, 'I heard the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) say, "When the slave-woman of one of you commits adultery and she is proven guilty (through witnesses or confession), he should flog her as prescribed (for the slave woman),...

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Hudud

"Inflict the prescribed punishment to those whom you possess (i.e. your slaves)." Related by Abu Dawud. And it is related by Muslim (but only traced to the Companion).

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Hudud

'Imran bin Husain (RAA) narrated, 'A woman from Juhainah came to the Prophet (ﷺ) while she was pregnant due to committing adultery and said, 'O Messenger of Allah! I have done something for which a prescribed punishment is to be...

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Hudud

Jabir bin 'Abdullah (RAA) narrated, "The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) stoned a man from Aslam to death, a Jewish man and a woman. Related by Muslim.

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Hudud

The story of stoning the two Jews is mentioned in Al-Bukhari and Muslim on the authority of Ibn 'Umar.

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Hudud

Sa'id bin Sa'd bin 'Ubadah (RAA) narrated, 'A small weak man was staying in our tribe, and he committed adultery with one of their slave-women. Sa'd mentioned this to the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ), and thereupon he said, "Flog him...

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Hudud

"Whoever you find doing as the people of Lot did (i.e. homosexuality), kill the one who does it and the one to whom it is done, and if you find anyone having sexual intercourse with animal, kill him and kill...

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Hudud

Ibn 'Umar (RAA) narrated, "The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) applied the punishment of flogging and also that of exile, Abu Bakr (RAA) applied the punishments of flogging and exile and also 'Umar applied them." Related by At-Tirmidhi with a trustworthy...

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Hudud

Ibn 'Abbas (RAA) narrated, "The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) cursed men who are effeminate and women who take the similitude of men, and said, "Get them out of your homes." Related by Al-Bukhari.