It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) that a Jewish man and a Jewish woman who had committed adultery, both of them being married, were brought to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him). They asked him (peace and blessings be upon him) to judge concerning them, so he (peace and blessings be upon him) gave the judgment of stoning concerning them, and they were stoned in front of the mosque in the area of Banu Ghanm. When the Jew felt the blows of the stones, he bent over his female companion so that he might shield her from the stones. And this was a proof (of truthfulness) from Allah for His Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him): that man bending over her to shield her. This hadith is sahih on the condition of Imam Muslim, but the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim) did not record it. Perhaps someone unacquainted with the science of hadith might imagine that the narrator named Isma'il al-Shaybani is unknown (majhul), but that is not so, because Amr bin Dinar has narrated from him.