And those who accuse chaste women and then do not produce four witnesses - lash them with eighty lashes and do not accept from them testimony ever after. And those are the defiantly disobedient, Quran.com/24/4
Via that verse, it seems that the punishment for accusing a chaste woman of fornication or adultery without witnesses is 80 lashes. I assume it's the same punishment in the following senarios:
- If a man accuses a chaste woman of fornication/adultery without witnesses
- If a woman accuses a chaste man of fornication/adultery without witnesses
- If a man accuses a chaste man of fornication/adultery without witnesses
- If a woman accuses a chaste woman of fornication/adultery without witnesses
My question is, as bad as fornication/adultery areis, they areit's no where near as bad as rape. So, what is the punishment if:
- A man accuses a woman of raping someone without any proof (even if the doctors say that there is no such evidence)
- A woman accuses a man of raping someone without any proof (even if the doctors say that there is no such evidence)
- A manSomeone accuses a man of raping someone without any proof (even if the doctors say that there is no such evidence)
- A woman accuses a woman of raping someone without any proof (even if the doctors say that there is no such evidence)
Sunni > Hanafi views please.