Hazrat Abu Usman bin Nasr narrates that my father said: I was among those who stoned Hazrat Ma'iz. When he felt the pain of the stones, he said: "Return me to the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him." But I refused this. The narrator says: I went to Hazrat Asim bin Umar and said: Hazrat Hasan bin Muhammad bin Hanafiyyah says: Indeed, news has reached me that—so I denied this. Then I went to Hazrat Jabir and said: Indeed, Hazrat Aslami has mentioned something from the words of Ma'iz bin Malik, that—"Return me," I deny this! So he replied: I was among those who stoned him, and you said: Indeed, he felt the pain of the stones and said: "Return me to the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him. Indeed, my people have put me in distress." And the people said: "Go to the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, he will not kill you." But we did not leave him until we killed him. Then, when the condition of Ma'iz was mentioned before the Noble Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, he said: "Why did you not leave him until I could consider his condition?"