an investigation of the imprisonment rules of general affair violators in holy quran and traditions

in order to protect individual and society from deviations and indecent activities, there are appropriate penal laws like hadd and ta’ zir in quran and traditions to halter administrative violators and social corrupters. in this regard, imprisonment in different forms has been considered as one of correctional punishments in narratives texts of shiite and sunnite. this article submits not only a comprehensive report of the considerations regarding imprisonment of governors, spurious physicians, traitors to the public treasure, hustlers, cuckolds, and so on, but also an extensive study on the quality and quantity of this kind of punishment according to the shiite and sunnite narrations. the deliberating of shiite and sunnite’s view concerning imprisonment and finally offering a new theory on the basis of quranic narrations and juridical evidence are the other goals of this study.