Explanation of the Book of Inheritance, Fixed Punishments, and Blood Money-05b

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The reciter: Muhammad ibn Yusuf narrated to us, Ibn 'Iyyunah narrated to us from al-Zuhri from Abu Daris al-Khulani from 'Ubadah ibn al-Samit (may Allah be pleased with him), who said:

We were with the Prophet (ﷺ) in a gathering and he said, 'Swear allegiance to me that you will not worship anything besides Allah, Will not steal, and will not commit illegal sexual intercourse." And then (the Prophet) recited the whole Verse (i.e. 60:12). The Prophet (ﷺ) added, 'And whoever among you fulfills his pledge, his reward is with Allah; and whoever commits something of such sins and receives the legal punishment for it, that will be considered as the expiation for that sin, and whoever commits something of such sins and Allah screens him, it is up to Allah whether to excuse or punish him."

كنا عند النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم في مجلس، فقال : بايعوني على أن لا تشركوا بالله شيئا، ولا تسرقوا، ولا تزنوا - وقرأ هذه الآية كلها - فمن وفى منكم فأجره على الله، ومن أصاب من ذلك شيئا فعوقب به فهو كفارته، ومن أصاب من ذلك شيئا فستره الله عليه، إن شاء غفر له، وإن شاء عذبه

Sahih al-Bukhari 6784

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The Shaykh : The point of this hadith is the statement:

and whoever commits any of those actions

ومن أصاب من ذلك شيئا

Sunan an-Nasa'i 5002Sahih (Darussalam)

Of these

من ذلك

Refers to theft and unlawful sexual intercourse,

and receives the legal punishment for it, that will be considered as the expiation for that sin

فعوقب به فهو كفارته

Sahih al-Bukhari 6784

, and the scholars derived from this that the fixed punishments (hudud) are expiation, deriving this from this hadith.
They also derived from the fact that Allah the Exalted did not double the punishment upon him, as He said:

And whatever strikes you of disaster - it is for what your hands have earned; but He pardons much.

وما أصابكم من مصيبة فما كسبت أيديكم ويعفو عن كثير

[Ash-Shuraa 42:30]

, except that highway robbers are excluded from this, as He said:

Indeed, the penalty for those who wage war against Allah and His Messenger and strive upon earth [to cause] corruption is none but that they be killed or crucified or that their hands and feet be cut off from opposite sides or that they be exiled from the land. That is for them a disgrace in this world; and for them in the Hereafter is a great punishment,

إنما جزاء الذين يحاربون الله ورسوله ويسعون في الأرض فسادا أن يقتلوا أو يصلبوا أو تقطع أيديهم وأرجلهم من خلاف أو ينفوا من الأرض ذلك لهم خزي في الدنيا ولهم في الآخرة عذاب عظيم

[Al-Ma'idah 5:33]

This is because of the severity of their crime; the fixed punishments were not sufficient to expiate it, but the fixed punishments serve as a deterrent, and people benefit from them in this world only.

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