The Ruling on Denying the Punishment of Stoning for the Adulterer
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. This questioner says: There are those who deny the punishment of stoning for the adulterer.
Answer:
Denying the punishment of stoning for the adulterer is apostasy from the religion of Islam, because it is mass-transmitted in the Sunnah, and it also came in the Qur'an: "The old man and the old woman who commit unlawful sexual intercourse, stone them both to death"[Al-Ma'idah 5:38] The recitation of this verse was abrogated, but its ruling remained. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. This questioner says: There are those who deny the punishment of stoning for the adulterer.
Answer:
Denying the punishment of stoning for the adulterer is apostasy from the religion of Islam, because it is mass-transmitted in the Sunnah, and it also came in the Qur'an: "The old man and the old woman who commit unlawful sexual intercourse, stone them both to death"
as a deterrent [punishment] from Allah. And Allah is Exalted in Might and Wise.
نَكَالًا مِّنَ اللَّهِ وَاللَّهُ عَزِيزٌ حَكِيمٌ
Source
شرح إغاثة اللهفان من مصائد الشيطان لابن القيم، تتمة فصل وقد أخبر - صلى لله عليه وسلم - أن طائفة من أمته تستحل الربا باسم البيع — islamhouse.com (1:02:11)
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