A traditional Sunni educational platform's survey of how the classical schools address homosexual acts: the Shafi'i, Hanbali and most Maliki authorities treat it under or analogous to the hadd penalty for zina; the Maliki school's own harsher position; and the Hanafi school's lean toward discretionary ta'zir punishment rather than hadd, reasoning that the evidentiary bar for hadd was not met to its satisfaction. Addresses the act; does not discuss attraction or orientation as distinct from conduct.
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AuthorShaykh Irshaad Sedick
PublisherSeekersGuidance
Publication Year2024
URLhttps://seekersguidance.org/answers/fiqh-answers-2/how-does-islamic-law-address-same-sex-relations/
Source Typereligious body
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Reliability Tier2
A named traditionally-trained scholar writing for an established Sunni educational platform that teaches across schools rather than advocating one, summarizing classical positions rather than a single primary legal text; held one tier above an unattributed reference-site answer for that reason. Cross-Tradition Connections
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