Sayyiduna Wa’il bin Hujr (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates that a woman went out of her house to perform prayer. On the way, she met a man who covered her with his clothes, fulfilled his desire with her, and then fled. Another man reached the woman, and she said to him:“Such-and-such man did evil to me.”That man went in search of him, and people caught him and brought him to the Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him). The woman (mistakenly) said that it was him. When the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) ordered him to be stoned, the man who had actually done evil to the woman stood up and said:“O Messenger of Allah! I am the one who did evil to her.”The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said to the woman:“Go, Allah has forgiven you.”And the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) spoke good words regarding that man. It was said to him:“O Messenger of Allah! Why do you not stone him?”The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said:“He has repented with such a repentance that if it were distributed among the people of Madinah, it would be accepted from them as well.”