0 If one of your slave wives has been guilty of lewdness, how should she be punished?

Those who hide the proofs and the guidance which We revealed, after We had made it clear to mankind in the Scripture: such are accursed of Allah and accursed of those who have the power to curse. 2:159

Trivia: According to the Quran, how much is a woman worth (as a witness)?

If one of your slave wives has been guilty of lewdness, how should she be punished?


Half as much as one of your free wives

Whoso is not able to afford to marry free, believing women, let them marry from the believing maids whom your right hands possess ... If when they are honourably married they commit lewdness they shall incur the half of the punishment (prescribed) for free women. 4:25
The adulterer and the adulteress, scourge ye each one of them (with) a hundred stripes. And let not pity for the twain withhold you from obedience to Allah, if ye believe in Allah and the Last Day. And let a party of believers witness their punishment.

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