Hadith on Homosexual Acts
Narrated by ʿAmr ibn Abī ʿAmr, from ʿIkrimah, from Ibn ʿAbbās (may Allah be pleased with him), who said:The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said:
"Whoever you find committing the act of the People of Lut, then kill the one who does it and the one to whom it is done."
Reported by:
- Imām Aḥmad (1/300)
- Abū Dāwūd (4462)
- Tirmidhī (1456)
- Ibn Mājah (2561)
- Bayhaqī (8/231-232)
- Dāraqutnī (3/124)
- Ḥākim (4/355)
This ḥadīth is graded as authentic.
Important Points from the Hadith
❶ The command to execute both the active and passive participants in homosexual acts, as it represents one of the gravest crimes in Islamic law.❷ It is more accurate to use the term "Sodomy" (Fʿil al-Qawm Lūt) for such acts rather than culturally derived or disrespectful slang terms like “Liwāṭ” or “Lūṭī”.
This content is taken from the book "Ḍiyāʾ al-Islām fī Sharḥ al-Imām bi-Aḥādīth al-Aḥkām" by Shaykh Taqī ad-Dīn Abī al-Fatḥ, translated by Mawlānā Maḥmūd Aḥmad Ghaḍanfar.