High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Saudi Arabia`s laws are an amalgam of rules from Sharia, mainly the rules formulated by the Hanbali school of jurisprudence but also from other schools of law like the Jafari one, as well as royal decrees, royal ordinances, other royal codes and bylaws, fatwa from the Council of Senior Religious Scholars and custom and practice.The kingdom`s laws treat blasphemy as an instance of apostasy. Sharia says apostasy is a Hadd(crossing the limit) offence. Sharia prescribes the death penalty for Hadd offences.