Is robbing shops and houses considered highway robbery?
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The questioner:
May Allah reward you, Honorable Shaykh. This questioner asks: Is the hadd (fixed punishment) for highway robbery applied to those who assault workers in shops, beating them and taking the money they have with them?
The Shaykh:
Yes, this is cutting off the road. Robbing the people of houses or robbing the people of shops is like robbing travelers on the roads. It is all cutting off the road, and the hadd for the one who cuts off the road is carried out against them. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you.
The Shaykh:
The road is where they confront people in the desert or in buildings, seizing their money openly, not by theft, or it does not matter to the one who cuts off the road.
May Allah reward you, Honorable Shaykh. This questioner asks: Is the hadd (fixed punishment) for highway robbery applied to those who assault workers in shops, beating them and taking the money they have with them?
The Shaykh:
Yes, this is cutting off the road. Robbing the people of houses or robbing the people of shops is like robbing travelers on the roads. It is all cutting off the road, and the hadd for the one who cuts off the road is carried out against them. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you.
The Shaykh:
The road is where they confront people in the desert or in buildings, seizing their money openly, not by theft, or it does not matter to the one who cuts off the road.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [3436/2781] هل السطو على المحلات والبيوت من الحرابة؟ - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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