Controversial Sayings

Those whose pubic hair had grown were killed, and those whose pubic hair had not yet grown were let go.

The Hour will not be established until you fight with the Jews, and the stone behind which a Jew will be hiding will say. 'O Muslim! There is a Jew hiding behind me, so kill him.'

Whoever frees a Muslim slave, Allah will save all the parts of his body from the (Hell) Fire as he has freed the body-parts of the slave.

I have been made victorious with awe (by Allah) by terrorizing my enemies.

Booty has been made lawful for me yet it was not lawful for anyone else before me.

Kill any pagan you encounter on the spot.

On another occasion, again against a Jewish tribe of Medina, he ordered all the tribe's adult males, some nine hundred, beheaded in the city square, the women and children sold into slavery, and their property distributed among his Muslim followers.

The best kind of manumission (of slaves) is the manumission of the most expensive slave and the most beloved by his master.

No servant should be called a 'slave,' for all of you are the slaves of Allah. Rather, you should refer to him as 'my young man.' The servant should not refer to anyone as 'my lord,' but rather he should refer to him as 'my master.'

Whoever takes a human life shall surely be put to death.

If anyone injures his neighbor, as he has done it shall be done to him, fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; whatever injury he has given a person shall be given to him.

For anyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death; he has cursed his father or his mother; his blood is upon him.

A man or a woman who is a medium or a necromancer shall surely be put to death. They shall be stoned with stones; their blood is upon them.

Anyone who shows contempt for the judge or for the priest who stands ministering there to the Lord your God is to be put to death. You must purge the evil from Israel.

He who kidnaps a man and sells him, or if he is found in his hand, shall surely be put to death.

He who strikes his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.

You shall keep the Sabbath, because it is holy for you. Everyone who profanes it shall be put to death. Whoever does any work on it, that soul shall be cut off from among his people.

If a man has committed a sin worthy of death, and he is put to death, and you hang his body on a tree, his body shall not remain all night on the tree, but you shall bury him the same day, for a hanged man is cursed by God.

But if a man lies with a female slave who is betrothed to another man, but has not been ransomed or given her freedom, a distinction shall be made. They shall not be put to death, because she was not free; but he shall offer a trespass offering to th…

A woman must quietly receive instruction with entire submissiveness. But I do not allow a woman to teach or exercise authority over a man, but to remain quiet.