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Amputation is one of the punishments (or حدود) proscribed by the [[Qur'an]] and the [[Sunnah]], in particular for the crime of theft. The insistence of the tradition on this punishment was likely a continuation of the Roman law from the Byzantine Empire. At the time of the compilation of the Qur'an this punishment had recently been rescinded by the code of Justinian, though this might not have been known by the author(s) of the Qur'an <ref>https://twitter.com/NaqadStudies/status/1316442397560246272</ref>. | |||
==Qur'an== | ==Qur'an== | ||