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

And he [Solomon] sought among the birds and said: How is it that I see not the hoopoe, or is he among the absent ? I verily will punish him with hard punishment or I verily will slay him, or he verily shall bring me a plain excuse. 27:20

Trivia: What animal made a speech that made Solomon smile and laugh?

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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