The legal implications when an apostate flees to the abode of war (dar al-harb).

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Al-Mughni

Book of the Apostate

Book 50 · Issue 3 · Bab 1

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If an apostate joins the abode of war, their property ownership is not dissolved, but killing them becomes permissible for anyone without requiring a call to repent (*istitaaba*), and their property becomes liable to be taken by whomever is able to seize it, because they have become equivalent to a belligerent enemy (*harbi*), and their ruling becomes the ruling of the people of war.