The Truth about the Alleged Punishment for Apostasy in Islam — Page 89
89 Similarly Sunan al-Nasa’ i states: "On the day of the fall of Mecca, the Holy Prophet sa granted general pardon to all except four men and two women and said: kill them even if they are found seeking refuge clutching the drapes of the Ka’ba. [Their names were:] ‘Ikrama bin Ab u Jahl, ‘Abdull a h bin Khatal, Miqyas bin S ub a bata and ‘Abdull a h bin Ab i Sar h… " 89 This is the real account. However, the situation that emerges by the reasoning of these scholars is as if untill the fall of Mecca, Hadrat ‘Uthm a n ra was unaware that the Holy Qur’an had stated death as the punishment of apostasy, that it would be criminal to give refuge to such a person and would be strictly against the teachings of the Holy Qur’an. That is to say that those who make this deduction disregard that they are in fact making a gross allegation against Hadrat ‘Uthm a n ra in that he first gave refuge to ‘Abdull a h bin 89 Sunan Al-Nasa’ i , Kit a bul Mu ha rabati [Ta h r i muddam i], Al- H ukmu Fil Murtaddi , Hadith No. 4072. [Publisher]