Ibn ‘Abbas said that when Ma'iz b. Malik came to the Prophet and he* said,“Perhaps you kissed, or squeezed, or looked,”he replied,“No, Messenger of God.”He then said,“Did you have intercourse with her?”asking the question in plain words, and when he replied that he had, he gave orders that he should be stoned to death. Bukhari transmitted it. * i.e. the Prophet. The tradition leaves it to be inferred that Ma'iz had confessed to committing fornication.