A major sin (kabīrah) is every sin upon which a specific threat of the Fire, the curse, or the wrath of Allah is mentioned in the Qur'an or the Sunnah, or upon which a fixed legal punishment (hadd) is established. The greatest is shirk, then killing a soul without right, then consuming usury, then fleeing on the day of battle, then accusing chaste women, then disobedience to parents and severing kinship. The scholars differed in counting them — some said seven, some seventy — but the principle is the threat, not a fixed number.