The general rules of criminal offences

This section gathers the general rules of criminal offences (jina'yat) and punishments: the three degrees of slander committed by a husband, liability when a disciplinary whipping causes damage, the status of the covenant people, the stages of the legislation of fighting, stoning, the degrees of indecency, the penalty for the married adulterer, highway robbery, fornication, theft, fighting the rebels, the diya and its wisdom, the peace treaty, the legitimacy and holders of ta'zir, the repentance of the murderer, the possible combination of whipping and stoning, and harm done to a fetus born alive.

Parts of this section

• The three degrees of slander committed by a husband
• Theft and the cutting of the hand