Fighting Corruption in Judiciary

13. Ibn Buraidah (may Allah be pleased with him) narrated from his father that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said:

“Judges are of three (types), two of whom will end up in Hell and one will be admitted to Paradise (as follows):

– One who judges according to his desires; he will be in Hell.

– One who judges with no knowledge; he will end up in hell.

– And one who sticks to the truth in his judgments; he will be in Paradise.” (Authenticated by Al-Albani)

False Testimony

14. `Ubaydullah ibn Abi Bakr said: I heard Anas ibn Malik (may Allah be pleased with him) saying:

The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) talked about the major sins, or he was asked about the major sins. Upon this he mentioned: “Associating anyone with Allah, killing of a person, being undutiful to parents.“

He (the Prophet further) said: “Should I not inform you about the gravest of the major sins?” And then he said: “It is false utterance” or he said, “false testimony“.

Shu`bah said: It was most probably “false testimony”. (Al-Bukhari and Muslim)

No One Above the Law

15. `A’ishah (may Allah be pleased with her) narrated:

The people of Quraish worried about the lady from Bani Makhzum who had committed theft. They asked, “Who will intercede for her with Allah’s Messenger?”

Some said, “No one dares to do so except Usamah ibn Zaid the beloved one to Allah’s Messenger.”

When Usamah spoke about that to him, Allah’s Messenger said,

“Do you try to intercede for somebody in a case connected with Allah’s Prescribed Punishments?“

Then he got up and delivered a sermon saying,

“What destroyed the nations preceding you, was that if a noble amongst them stole, they would forgive him, and if a poor person amongst them stole, they would inflict Allah’s legal punishment on him.

By Allah, if Fatima, the daughter of Muhammad stole, I would cut off her hand.” (Al-Bukhari)