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Originally Posted by Praxeas
I wonder of Muhammad is making it up as he goes along
Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) sent us on military expedition telling us, "If you find such and such persons (he named two men from Quraish), burn them fire." Then we came to bid him farewell, when we wanted to set out, he said: "Previously I ordered you to burn so-and-so and so-and-so with fire, but as punishment with fire is done by none except Allah, if you capture them, kill them, (instead)."
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Punishment by fire is forbidden.
So how it is justified I am not sure. Even the Quran in one instance adminishes Mohammed for making things lawful which are not. Which is why Mohammed himself instructed Hadith to be destroyed and that no books were to be written except for the Quran.