S: O you who believe! call to witness between you when death draws nigh
to one of you, at the time of making the will, two just persons from
among you, or two others from among others than you, if you are
travelling in the land and the calamity of death befalls you; the two
(witnesses) you should detain after the prayer; then if you doubt
(them), they shall both swear by Allah, (saying): We will not take for
it a price, though there be a relative, and we will not hide the
testimony of Allah for then certainly we should be among the sinners.
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Y: But if it gets known that these two were guilty of the sin (of
perjury), let two others stand forth in their places,- nearest in kin
from among those who claim a lawful right: let them swear by Allah: "We
affirm that our witness is truer than that of those two, and that we
have not trespassed (beyond the truth): if we did, behold! the wrong be
upon us!"
P: But then, if it is afterwards ascertained that both of them merit
(the suspicion of) sin, let two others take their place of those nearly
concerned, and let them swear by Allah, (saying): Verily our testimony
is truer than their testimony and we have not transgressed (the bounds
of duty), for them indeed we should be of the evil-doers.
S: Then if it becomes known that they both have been guilty of a sin,
two others shall stand up in their place from among those who have a
claim against them, the two nearest in kin; so they two should swear by
Allah: Certainly our testimony is truer than the testimony of those
two, and we have not exceeded the limit, for then most surely we should
be of the unjust.
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