وَٱلَّٰتِي
يَأۡتِينَ
ٱلۡفَٰحِشَةَ
مِن
نِّسَآئِكُمۡ
فَٱسۡتَشۡهِدُواْ
عَلَيۡهِنَّ
أَرۡبَعَةٗ
مِّنكُمۡۖ
فَإِن
شَهِدُواْ
فَأَمۡسِكُوهُنَّ
فِي
ٱلۡبُيُوتِ
حَتَّىٰ
يَتَوَفَّىٰهُنَّ
ٱلۡمَوۡتُ
أَوۡ
يَجۡعَلَ
ٱللَّهُ
لَهُنَّ
سَبِيلٗا
١٥
˹As for˺ those of your women who commit illegal intercourse—call four witnesses from among yourselves. If they testify, confine the offenders to their homes until they die or Allah ordains a ˹different˺ way for them.
— Dr. Mustafa Khattab, The Clear Quran
Those who commit immorality [i.e., unlawful sexual intercourse] of your women - bring against them four [witnesses] from among you. And if they testify,1 confine them [i.e., the guilty women] to houses until death takes them or Allāh ordains for them [another] way.2
— Saheeh International
Lee Tafsir
Ibn Kathir (Abridged)
The Adulteress is Confined in her House; A Command Later Abrogated
At the begining of Islam, the ruling was that if a woman commits adultery as stipulated by sufficient proof, she was confined to her home, without leave, until she died. Allah said,
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…The Adulteress is Confined in her House; A Command Later Abrogated
At the begining of Islam, the ruling was that if a woman commits adultery as stipula
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