Answer: The
answer of the Prophet (sws) is not mentioned because the later part of the
Hadith gives a good indication what his answer might have been. If a husband
suspects his wife of having illicit relations with someone else, the process of
li‘an has been recommended. The following is what the Qur’an says about it:
Those men who accuse their own wives [of adultery] but
have no witness except themselves, each one of them shall be made to swear four
times by Allah that his charge is true, and the fifth time calling down upon
himself the curse of Allah if he is lying. As for the wife, the punishment shall
be averted from her if she swears four times by Allah that his [her husband’s]
charge is false and the fifth time calls down the wrath of Allah on herself if
his charge is true. (24: 6-9)
There is no
way a husband can kill his wife or the man he sees her with for that reason.
There are only two reasons for which a person can be killed, and in both cases
no individual can do it on his own. It has to be done by the state. The reasons
are stated in the following verse:
Whoever kills a person, except as a punishment for murder
or mischief in the land, it will be [written in his book of deeds] as if he had
killed all the human beings on the surface of the earth. (5:32)
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