(Second chain) When Ma'iz said that he had committed adultery, the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Perhaps you only indicated with your eyes (or it means that you only touched with your hand), or kissed, or looked? The narrator says: It seems that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) feared that perhaps this person was unfamiliar with the definition of adultery.

Narrated by Sayyiduna Wathilah bin Asqa’ (may Allah be pleased with him), he says: One day I was present with the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), when a man came to him and said: I have reached one of the limits set by Allah, so establish Allah’s limit upon me. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) turned away from him. Then he came a second time and confessed, but again the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) turned his face away. Then he came a third time and admitted, but again the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) turned away from him. Meanwhile, the call for prayer was given. When the prayer was performed, he came to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) a fourth time and said: I have reached one of the limits set by Allah, so establish Allah’s limit upon me. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) called him and said: Did you not just perform ablution well and pray with us? He said: Yes, indeed, I did this. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Then go, for this act is your expiation.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Umamah (may Allah be pleased with him), then a hadith similar to the previous one was narrated, except that in this one it is stated: Did it happen that you left your house, performed ablution, and performed ablution well, and prayed with us? That man said: Yes, indeed, that is what I did. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Allah Almighty has forgiven your sin or your prescribed punishment.

Narrated from Sayyiduna Jabir bin Abdullah (may Allah be pleased with both of them), he says: I was among those people who stoned Ma'iz. When we stoned him and he felt the pain of the stones, he said: O people! Take me back to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), for my people have killed me, they have deceived me. The people said: Surely, the Messenger of Allah is not one to kill you. So we did not refrain from it until we finished stoning him. Then when we returned to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) and narrated his words to him, he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Why did you not leave him and bring him to me? In fact, the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) intended to further investigate his matter.

Narrated from Nasr bin Dahraslami, he says: A man from our tribe, Ma'iz bin Khalid bin Malik, went to the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) and confessed to adultery. The Noble Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) ordered us to stone him. So we took him to Harrah Bani Niyar and stoned him. When he felt the pain of the stones, he became extremely restless. Then, when we finished stoning him and returned to the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) and mentioned his restlessness to him, the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Why did you not let him go?

Abdul Aziz bin Abdullah Quraishi says: The person who was present with the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) narrated to me, the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) was between Makkah and Madinah when he ordered a man to be stoned. When stones struck him, he ran away. In another narration: When he felt the pain of the stones, he got up and ran away. When this matter reached the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), he said: Why did you not let him go?

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Sahl bin Sa’d (may Allah be pleased with him) that a man from the tribe of Banu Aslam came to the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) and confessed that he had committed adultery with a woman, and he also mentioned the name of that woman. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) sent for that woman and asked her about this wrongdoing; she denied it. So the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) imposed the prescribed punishment (hadd) on that man and let the woman go.

It is narrated from Amir Sha'bi, he says: The husband of Sharaha was absent from her and he was in Syria, but Sharaha became pregnant. Her guardian brought her to Sayyiduna Ali bin Abi Talib (may Allah be pleased with him) and said: She has committed adultery, and she herself also confessed. So Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) gave her one hundred lashes on Thursday and stoned her to death on Friday. A pit was dug for her up to her navel, and I was also present there. Then Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) said: Verily, stoning is Sunnah; the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) implemented it. If anyone had testified against this woman, he would have thrown the first stone, first giving testimony and then, after the testimony, throwing the stone. But this woman has confessed, so I am the first to throw a stone at her. Then he threw a stone at her, and afterwards the people threw stones. Amir says: By Allah! I am among those who killed her.

It is also narrated from Sha'bi, he says: Sharaha Hamdaniyah came to Sayyiduna Ali, may Allah be pleased with him, and said: I have committed adultery. He said: Perhaps you became jealous, or saw a dream, or were forced. In one narration it is: Perhaps your husband came to you. But in response to every question, she said: No, no. So Sayyiduna Ali, may Allah be pleased with him, flogged her on Thursday and stoned her on Friday, and said: I have flogged her in the light of the Book of Allah and stoned her in the light of the Sunnah of the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Buraidah Aslami (may Allah be pleased with him), he says: I was sitting with the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), when a woman from the tribe of Ghamid came to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) and said: O Messenger of Allah! I have committed adultery and I want you to purify me. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said to her: Go back. She came again the next day and confessed to adultery before you, saying: O Messenger of Allah! I have committed adultery and I want you to purify me. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Go back. The next day she came again and confessed to adultery before you and said: O Prophet of Allah! Purify me, perhaps you want to send me back just as you sent Ma'iz bin Malik back. By Allah! I am also pregnant because of adultery. The Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Go back until you give birth to the child. So when she gave birth to the child, she came carrying the child and said: O Prophet of Allah! I have given birth to the child. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Go back and nurse him until you wean him. When she had weaned him, she brought the child, and in his hand was a piece of bread, and she said: O Prophet of Allah! I have weaned him. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) ordered that the child be entrusted to a Muslim man, and regarding the woman, he ordered that a pit be dug for her and she be buried in it up to her chest, then he ordered the people to stone her. Sayyiduna Khalid bin Walid (may Allah be pleased with him) came with a stone and struck her on the head, and when blood splattered on his cheek, he cursed her. When the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) saw that he was cursing her, he said: Khalid! Stop, do not curse her. By Him in Whose hand is my soul, she has repented such a repentance that if a tax collector were to repent like this, he would also be forgiven. Then the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) ordered regarding her, then he offered her funeral prayer and she was buried.