Punishment for slandering the Prophet is death in Islam

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Re: Punishment for slandering the Prophet is death in Islam

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It appears to me from the authentic hadith that in Islam any individual is allowed to take matters into his own hands in killing a person who is slandering Holy Prophet p.b.u.h. Why i am hearing that only a court or ruler can carry out this punishment. Is this from Jurisprudence of later times?.

You have answered this question yourself below. Apparently its not allowed to ‘‘guess’’ the ruling of a matter in Islam even if the person guesses correctly! A persons judgement must be grounded in knowledge of the Quran and Sunnah of the Messenger SallAllaahu alaihi wa alihi wa Sallam in order to do ijtihad (make a ruling).
Although the companions (may Allaah be pleased with him) were able to do this, we in our times are not. Hence the importance of knowledgeable ulema/courts especially when the judgement of individuals is not reliable

The problem in imitating the action of the blind man today is that Hazrat Muhammad p.b.u.h was guided and informed by Allah through angel Jibraeel. So we are assured that the blind man indeed was truthful in saying that her slave-woman was slandering the Prophet p.b.u.h. The truth was acknowledged by the Prophet p.b.u.h and the crowd was told that there would be no retaliation or compensation for woman killed. But today, a man may murder his wife for whatever reason, lets say he hit her head with stone in anger and he may try to avoid qisaas by claiming that her wife was slandering Prophet p.b.u.h . I will give the example from real life. Four men from my home town were employed by a Chauhdry of Khushab (Punjab) as bodyguards. One day they murdered the Chauhdry and looted his money and few precious items. They arrived in their home town and spread the stories that they killed the Chauhdri for whom they were working, because he was blasphemous and used to hang the names of Allah and his Rasool in the necks of his dogs. The people not only believed them but congratulated them for doing the noble work. After some time Punjab police came after them and made a raid on the house of the one among them. The other three had already escaped to lawless region of Waziristan (where Police has no jurisdiction) while the one , who was sleeping in his home, was arrested. Millions of rupees in cash and precious items were recovered from his house.