Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim shared a hadith of the Prophet Muhammad SAW reminding people about justice regardless of a person's standing, hours after the Kuala Lumpur High Court ordered former prime minister Najib Abdul Razak to serve the remainder of his prison sentence under house arrest, effective from yesterday.

Anwar’s post on Facebook cited a hadith narrated by al-Bukhari from Aisha RA, touching on the destruction of past nations due to practising differential treatment between high-ranking individuals and the weak in the execution of punishment.

The hadith, among others, stated that if Fatimah, the daughter of the Prophet herself, committed the offence of theft, the Prophet would still execute the punishment on her.