> 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. My question is, as bad as fornication/adultery is, it's no where near as bad as rape. So, what is the punishment if: 1. Someone accuses a man of raping someone without any proof (even if the doctors say that there is no such evidence) **Sunni > Hanafi views please.**