Will a sinner be punished in the Hereafter if the legal punishment (hadd) is carried out on him in this world?
Question If a person do a sin in this world, and then get the punishment for it, will he then get a punishment for the same sin after his death? For example if a person commits adultery, or steal, then he is gets death punishment, or get his hand cut off, will he then get…
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then get the punishment for it, will he then get a punishment for the same sin after his
death? For example if a person commits adultery, or steal, then he is gets death
punishment, or get his hand cut off, will he then get a punishment for that sin in the
Hereafter? If he is homosexual and gets stoned to death, is he then free from the fire of
hell?
Could you please tell me the answer in light of Hadeeth and Quran ?
Praise be to Allah.
Al-Bukhaari (may Allaah have mercy on him) narrated in
his Saheeh (3/143, no. 3679) with his isnaad that ‘Ubaadah ibn al-Saamit, one
of those who was present at Badr with the Messenger of Allaah
(peace and blessings of
Allaah be upon him), said that one of those who had been present at al-‘Aqabah told
him:
The Messenger of Allaah
(peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him)
said, with a group of his Sahaabah standing around him: “Come and give me your oath
of allegiance, promising that you will not associate anything in worship with Allaah, or
steal, or commit zinaa (illegal sexual activity), or kill your children, or utter slander
intentionally forging falsehood (by wrongfully attributing illegitimate children to
husbands) [cf 60:12], or disobey me with regard to anything good (ma’roof). Whoever
among you fulfils this oath, his reward will be due from Allaah, and whoever commits any
of these sins and is punished for it in this world, this will be an expiation for him.
Whoever commits any of these sins and Allaah conceals it for him, then his case rests with
Allaah – if He wills, He will punish him and if He wills, He will forgive him.”
So they gave their oath of allegiance to him on that basis.
Al-Haafiz said in al-Fath (1/6): “What we learn from this
hadeeth is that the carrying out of the punishment is an expiation for the sin, even if
the one on whom the hadd is carried out does not repent. This is the view of the
majority. It was also said that he has to repent – this was stated by some of the
Taabi’een.”
The previous hadeeth was also narrated by al-Tirmidhi in his Sunan.
After quoting it, he said:
“Al-Shaafa’i said concerning this topic: I have not heard any
better indication than this hadeeth to show that the hudood (punishments) are an
expiation for the people on whom they are carried out. Al-Shaafa’i said: if a person
commits a sin and Allaah conceals it for him, I prefer for him to keep it concealed and to
repent, keeping the matter between himself and Allaah. Something similar was narrated from
Abu Bakr and ‘Umar, that they commanded a man to conceal his sin.”
