Chapter: The legal status of the manifest apostate and of one who conceals disbelief, denies an obligation on which there is unanimous agreement, refuses to perform it, or practices sorcery.

Anyone who openly renounces Islam for any other faith, doing so voluntarily and without coercion, is to be put to death by the sword. Nevertheless, the majority of scholars—among the Companions and those who came after them—deemed it recommended to call him to repent first.