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Sunan Abi Dawud 4413 (Book 40, Hadith 63) #24704
Punishment for Adultery and Fornication in Islam

SUMMARY: This hadith explains the punishment for adultery and fornication according to the Quran.

Ibn 'Abbas said: The Qur’anic verse goes: "If any of your woman are guilty of lewdness, take the evidence of four (reliable) witnesses from amongst you against them, and if they testify, Confine them to houses until death do chain them or Allah ordains for them some (other) way. Allah then mentioned man after woman and combined them in another verse : "If two men among you are guilty of lewdness, punish them both. If they repent and amend, leave them alone. This command was abrogated by the verse relating to flogging : "The woman and the man guilty of adultery or fornication – flog each of them with one hundred stripes.
حَدَّثَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ ثَابِتٍ الْمَرْوَزِيُّ، حَدَّثَنِي عَلِيُّ بْنُ الْحُسَيْنِ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، عَنْ يَزِيدَ النَّحْوِيِّ، عَنْ عِكْرِمَةَ، عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ، قَالَ ‏{‏ وَاللاَّتِي يَأْتِينَ الْفَاحِشَةَ مِنْ نِسَائِكُمْ فَاسْتَشْهِدُوا عَلَيْهِنَّ أَرْبَعَةً مِنْكُمْ فَإِنْ شَهِدُوا فَأَمْسِكُوهُنَّ فِي الْبُيُوتِ حَتَّى يَتَوَفَّاهُنَّ الْمَوْتُ أَوْ يَجْعَلَ اللَّهُ لَهُنَّ سَبِيلاً ‏}‏ وَذَكَرَ الرَّجُلَ بَعْدَ الْمَرْأَةِ ثُمَّ جَمَعَهُمَا فَقَالَ ‏{‏ وَاللَّذَانِ يَأْتِيَانِهَا مِنْكُمْ فَآذُوهُمَا فَإِنْ تَابَا وَأَصْلَحَا فَأَعْرِضُوا عَنْهُمَا ‏}‏ فَنَسَخَ ذَلِكَ بِآيَةِ الْجَلْدِ فَقَالَ ‏{‏ الزَّانِيَةُ وَالزَّانِي فَاجْلِدُوا كُلَّ وَاحِدٍ مِنْهُمَا مِائَةَ جَلْدَةٍ

TOPICS
adultery  *  fornication  *  punishment  *  repentance  *  flogging  *  zina  *  fahishah  *  auqubat  *  tawbah  *  rajm

QUICK LESSONS:
Repentance ; Amendment ; Reliability ; Respect towards Women ; Equality between Men & Women .

EXPLANATIONS:
According to this hadith narrated by Ibn 'Abbas, if a woman is found guilty of lewdness or adultery then four reliable witnesses must be brought forward as evidence. If they testify against her then she should be confined to her house until death or Allah ordains another way. Similarly if two men are found guilty of lewdness then they should both be punished. However if they repent and amend their ways then they should be left alone. This command was later abrogated by a verse which states that those who commit adultery or fornication should receive one hundred stripes as punishment.

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