Judicial Effect of Incomplete Confession to the Crimes Punishable by Had

To prove crimes punishable by Had through confession, Islamic criminal justice has set particular qualification, some of which such as puberty and wisdom refer to the confessor while some others refer to the confession itself. Most important qualifications, which monitor confession’s quality, is its quorum. In this context, confessor’s confessions do not reach the valid quorum. In such circumstances, we are faced with incomplete confession, which its verdict is the topic of current paper. There is no doubt about the verdict of these cases with respect to instability of Had penalty, which is derived from incomplete confession. But the question is whether, in such cases, confessor’s Taazir is canceled or not? In this regard, there is no consensus among the legislators. Most of legislators have passed a sentence of Taazir on the confessor but some of them have opposed it. In our country’s jurisprudence, the legislator of the Islamic punishment has protested the incomplete confession, which is derived from not reaching the valid quorum, and has followed the dominant point of view. In the current paper, we brought up legislators’ statements about this issue and studied their evidence with more discussion. We have also paid attention to the position of our country’s criminal law toward this issue.