There is a 32 year-old single Nigerian mother who has been convicted of adultery, and if the appeals process doesn’t work in her favor, she will be stoned to death. (News article url=http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/08/27/nigeria.stoning.ap/index.html]here).
Im pretty familiar with the Quran, and I’m pretty sure there is no punishment involving stoning wtitten in it. Does anyone no where this Islamic law originated? Is it in a Hadith?
It is and like virtually all issues involving hadith, its validity is disputed. The Qur’an proscribed punishment for adultery is flogging ( and you need four eyewitnesses to the act to prove it ). The particular hadith in this case adds the additional punishment of stoning married adulterers, which many Muslims take as valid, but others do not.
I should have Googled first. Some info here if anyone is interested.
Thanks for the link x-ray vision. The author of the piece made it clear that the punishment for “adultery” applies whether or not the perpetrator is married or not (hence I put adultery in quotes).
I’m curious what the burden of proof would be in an Islamic court. Would there have to be an eyewitness (or eyewitnesses) to the act, or would simple evidence of the act (such as a pregnancy [which until fairly recently was proof of the act]) be sufficient?
Zev Steinhardt