The Truth about the Alleged Punishment for Apostasy in Islam — Page 10
10 lack of integrity on their part that they abandoned the clear definitions given by the Holy Prophet sa and only on account of their enmity towards the Ahmadiyya Jam a ’at they tried to give their own self-made definition of a Muslim and miserably failed in this attempt. THE FIRST DEFINITION BY THE HOLY PROPHET SA The definition in the Holy Prophet’s sacred words that we have found, which has the greatest level of generality and is the broadest one—and on the basis of which it is impossible for a person, who is called a Muslim, to declare another Muslim to be an apostate, unless the latter himself recants Islam by his own formal declaration—is as follows: "The Holy Prophet sa said: 'Write down for me the name of every such individual who claims to be a Muslim by the word of his own mouth. '" 5 5 S a hih Bukh a r i , Kit a bul Jih a di Wassiyar, B a bu Kit a batil Im a minn a sa , Hadith No. 3060. See also S a hih Muslim, Kit a bul I m a n, Babu Jaw a zil Istisr a ri Bil I mani Lil Kh a ’ifi , Hadith No. 377. [Publisher]