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From: paul@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
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Subject: Testimony and women's rights in the Qur'an
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2:282 advises the "one man and two women" witnesses in place of two
men for for contracts regarding "credit".

However, for wills (bequests), no specification of gender is made.
(5:106, Royal Egyptian edition).

For witnesses regarding adultery, four witnesses, no gender specified,
are advised. (24:4)

To extend, then, the "two women for one man" rule for all testimony,
would seem "irregular" with regards to the Qur'an.