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Sunan Abu-Dawud
Book 38 -
Prescribed Punishments (Kitab Al-Hudud)
Book 38, Number 4339:
Narrated Aisha, Ummul Mu'minin:
The Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him)
Said: The blood of a Muslim man who testifies that there is no god but Allah
and that Muhammad is Allah's Apostle should not lawfully be shed except only
for one of three reasons: a man who committed fornication after marriage, in
which case he should be stoned; one who goes forth to fight with Allah and His
Apostle, in which case he should be killed or crucified or exiled from the
land; or one who commits murder for which he is killed.
Book 38, Number 4341:
Narrated Mu'adh ibn Jabal:
AbuMusa said: Mu'adh came to me when I was in
the Yemen. A man who was Jew embraced Islam and then retreated from Islam.
When Mu'adh came, he said: I will not come down from my mount until he is
killed. He was then killed. One of them said: He was asked to repent before
that.
Book 38, Number 4345:
Narrated Abdullah ibn Abbas:
Abdullah ibn AbuSarh used to write (the
revelation) for the Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him). Satan made him slip,
and he joined the infidels. The Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) commanded
to kill him on the day of Conquest (of Mecca). Uthman ibn Affan sought
protection for him. The Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) gave him
protection.
Book 38, Number 4346:
Narrated Sa'd ibn AbuWaqqas:
On the day of the conquest of Mecca, Abdullah
ibn Sa'd ibn AbuSarh hid himself with Uthman ibn Affan.
He brought him and made him stand before the
Prophet (peace_be_upon_him), and said: Accept the allegiance of Abdullah,
Apostle of Allah! He raised his head and looked at him three times, refusing
him each time, but accepted his allegiance after the third time.
Then turning to his companions, he said: Was
not there a wise man among you who would stand up to him when he saw that I
had withheld my hand from accepting his allegiance, and kill him?
They said: We did not know what you had in
your heart, Apostle of Allah! Why did you not give us a signal with your eye?
He said: It is not advisable for a Prophet to
play deceptive tricks with the eyes.
Book 38, Number 4348:
Narrated Abdullah Ibn Abbas:
A blind man had a slave-mother who used to
abuse the Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) and disparage him. He forbade her but
she did not stop. He rebuked her but she did not give up her habit. One night
she began to slander the Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) and abuse him. So he took
a dagger, placed it on her belly, pressed it, and killed her. A child who came
between her legs was smeared with the blood that was there. When the morning
came, the Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) was informed about it.
He assembled the people and said: I adjure by
Allah the man who has done this action and I adjure him by my right to him
that he should stand up. Jumping over the necks of the people and trembling
the man stood up.
He sat before the Prophet (peace_be_upon_him)
and said: Apostle of Allah! I am her master; she used to abuse you and
disparage you. I forbade her, but she did not stop, and I rebuked her, but she
did not abandon her habit. I have two sons like pearls from her, and she was
my companion. Last night she began to abuse and disparage you. So I took a
dagger, put it on her belly and pressed it till I killed her.
Thereupon the Prophet (peace_be_upon_him)
said: Oh be witness, no retaliation is payable for her blood.
Book 38, Number 4349:
Narrated Ali ibn AbuTalib:
A Jewess used to abuse the Prophet
(peace_be_upon_him) and disparage him. A man strangled her till she died. The
Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) declared that no recompense was payable
for her blood.
Book 38, Number 4350:
Narrated AbuBakr:
AbuBarzah said: I was with AbuBakr. He became
angry at a man and uttered hot words. I said: Do you permit me, Caliph of the
Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him), that I cut off his neck? These words of
mine removed his anger; he stood and went in. He then sent for me and said:
What did you say just now? I said: (I had said:) Permit me that I cut off his
neck. He said: Would you do it if I ordered you? I said: Yes. He said: No, I
swear by Allah, this is not allowed for any man after Muhammad
(peace_be_upon_him).
Book 38, Number 4356:
Narrated Abdullah ibn Umar:
Some people raided the camels of the Prophet
(peace_be_upon_him), drove them off, and apostatised. They killed the herdsman
of the Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) who was a believer. He (the
Prophet) sent (people) in pursuit of them and they were caught. He had their
hands and feet cut off, and their eyes put out. The verse regarding fighting
against Allah and His Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) was then revealed. These
were the people about whom Anas ibn Malik informed al-Hajjaj when he asked
him.
Book 38, Number 4357:
Narrated AbuzZinad:
When the Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him)
cut off (the hands and feet of) those who had stolen his camels and he had
their eyes put out by fire (heated nails), Allah reprimanded him on that
(action), and Allah, the Exalted, revealed: "The punishment of those who wage
war against Allah and His Apostle and strive with might and main for mischief
through the land is execution or crucifixion."
Book 38, Number 4359:
Narrated Abdullah ibn Abbas:
The verse "The punishment of those who wage
war against Allah and His Apostle, and strive with might and main for mischief
through the land is execution, or crucifixion, or the cutting off of hands and
feet from opposite side or exile from the land...most merciful" was revealed
about polytheists. If any of them repents before they are arrested, it does
not prevent from inflicting on him the prescribed punishment which he
deserves.
Book 38, Number 4362:
Narrated Aisha, Ummul Mu'minin:
The Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him)
Said: Forgive the people of good qualities their slips, but not faults to
which prescribed penalties apply.
Book 38, Number 4363:
Narrated Abdullah ibn Amr ibn al-'As:
The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: Forgive
the infliction of prescribed penalties among yourselves, for any prescribed
penalty of which I hear must be carried out.
Book 38, Number 4364:
Narrated Nu'aym:
Ma'iz came to the Prophet (peace_be_upon_him)
and admitted (having committed adultery) four times in his presence so he
ordered him to be stoned to death, but said to Huzzal: If you had covered him
with your garment, it would have been better for you.
Book 38, Number 4366:
Narrated Wa'il ibn Hujr:
When a woman went out in the time of the
Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) for prayer, a man attacked her and overpowered
(raped) her.
She shouted and he went off, and when a man
came by, she said: That (man) did such and such to me. And when a company of
the Emigrants came by, she said: That man did such and such to me. They went
and seized the man whom they thought had had intercourse with her and brought
him to her.
She said: Yes, this is he. Then they brought
him to the Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him).
When he (the Prophet) was about to pass
sentence, the man who (actually) had assaulted her stood up and said: Apostle
of Allah, I am the man who did it to her.
He (the Prophet) said to her: Go away, for
Allah has forgiven you. But he told the man some good words (AbuDawud said:
meaning the man who was seized), and of the man who had had intercourse with
her, he said: Stone him to death.
He also said: He has repented to such an
extent that if the people of Medina had repented similarly, it would have been
accepted from them.
Book 38, Number 4367:
Narrated AbuUmayyah al-Makhzumi:
A thief who had accepted (having committed
theft) was brought to the Prophet (peace_be_upon_him), but no good were found
with him. The Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him), said to him: I do not
think you have stolen. He said: Yes, I have. He repeated it twice or thrice.
So he gave orders. His hand was cut off and he was then brought to him. He
said: Ask Allah's pardon and turn to Him in repentance. He said: I ask Allah's
pardon and turn to Him in repentance. He (the Prophet) then said: O Allah,
accept his repentance.
Book 38, Number 4369:
Narrated An-Nu'man ibn Bashir:
Azhar ibn Abdullah al-Harari said: Some goods
of the people of Kila' were stolen. They accused some men of the weavers (of
theft). They came to an-Nu'man ibn Bashir, the companion of the Prophet
(peace_be_upon_him). He confined them for some days and then set them free.
They came to an-Nu'man and said: You have set
them free without beating and investigation. An-Nu'man said: What do you want?
You want me to beat them. If your goods are found with them, then it is all
right; otherwise, I shall take (retaliation) from your back as I have taken
from their backs. They asked: Is this your decision? He said: This is the
decision of Allah and His Apostle (peace_be_upon_him).
Book 38, Number 4373:
Narrated Abdullah ibn Umar:
The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) had a man's
hand cut off who had stolen from the place reserved for women a shield whose
price was three dirhams.
Book 38, Number 4374:
Narrated Abdullah ibn Abbas:
The Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) had
a man's hand cut off for (stealing) a shield whose price was a dinar or ten
dirhams.
Book 38, Number 4375:
Narrated Rafi' ibn Khadij:
Muhammad ibn Yahya ibn Hibban said: A slave
stole a plant of a palm-tree from the orchard of a man and planted it in the
orchard of his master. The owner of the plant went out in search of the plant
and he found it. He solicited help against the slave from Marwan ibn al-Hakam
who was the Governor of Medina at that time. Marwan confined the slave and
intended to cut off his hand. The slave's master went to Rafi' ibn Khadij and
asked him about it.
He told him that he had heard the Apostle of
Allah (peace_be_upon_him) say: The hand is not to be cut off for taking fruit
or the pith of the palm-tree.
The man then said: Marwan has seized my slave
and wants to cut off his hand. I wish you to go with me to him and tell him
that which you have heard from the Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him). So
Rafi' ibn Khadij went with him and came to Marwan ibn al-Hakam.
Rafi' said to him: I heard the Apostle of
Allah (peace_be_upon_him) say: The hand is not to be cut off for taking fruit
or the pith of the palm-tree. So Marwan gave orders to release the slave and
then he was released.
Book 38, Number 4377:
Narrated Abdullah ibn Amr ibn al-'As:
The Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) was
asked about fruit which was bung up and said: If a needy person takes some
with his mouth and does not take a supply away in his garment, there is
nothing on him, but he who carries any of it is to be fined twice the value
and punished, and he who steals any of it after it has been put in the place
where dates are dried to have his hand cut off if their value reaches the
value of a shield. If he steals a thing less in value than it, he is to be
find twice the value and punished.
Book 38, Number 4378:
Narrated Jabir ibn Abdullah:
The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: Cutting
of hand is not to be inflicted on one who plunders, but he who plunders
conspicuously does not belong to us.
Book 38, Number 4380:
Narrated Safwan:
AbuDawud said: Za'idah has also transmitted
it from Simak from Ju'ayd ibn Hujayr. He said: Safwan slept. Mujahid and Tawus
said: While he was sleeping a thief came and stole the cloak from beneath his
head. The version of AbuSalamah ibn AbdurRahman has: He snatched it away from
beneath his head and he awoke. He cried and he (the thief) was seized.
Az-Zuhri narrated from Safwan ibn Abdullah. His version has: He slept in the
mosque and used his cloak as pillow. A thief came and took his cloak. The
thief was seized and brought to the Prophet (peace_be_upon_him).
Book 38, Number 4382:
Narrated Aisha, Ummul Mu'minin:
A woman borrowed jewellery through some known
persons and she herself was unknown. She then sold them. She was seized and
brought to the Prophet (peace_be_upon_him). He gave orders that her hand
should be cut off. It is this woman about whom Usamah interceded and of her
the Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) said whatever he said.
Book 38, Number 4384:
Narrated Aisha, Ummul Mu'minin:
The Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him)
said: There are three (persons) whose actions are not recorded: a sleeper till
he awakes, an idiot till he is restored to reason, and a boy till he reaches
puberty.
Book 38, Number 4385:
Narrated Ali ibn AbuTalib:
Ibn Abbas said: A lunatic woman who had
committed adultery was brought to Umar. He consulted the people and ordered
that she should be stoned.
Ali ibn AbuTalib passed by and said: What is
the matter with this (woman)? They said: This is a lunatic woman belonging to
a certain family. She has committed adultery. Umar has given orders that she
should be stoned.
He said: Take her back. He then came to him
and said: Commander of the Faithful, do you not know that there are three
people whose actions are not recorded: a lunatic till he is restored to
reason, a sleeper till he awakes, and a boy till he reaches puberty?
He said: Yes. He then asked: Why is it that
this woman is being stoned?
He said: There is nothing. He then said: Let
her go. He (Umar) let her go and began to utter: Allah is most great.
Book 38, Number 4387:
Narrated Ali ibn AbuTalib:
Ibn Abbas said: A lunatic woman passed by Ali
ibn AbuTalib. He then mentioned the rest of the tradition to the same effect
as Uthman mentioned. This version has: Do you not remember that the Apostle of
Allah (peace_be_upon_him) has said: There are three whose actions are not
recorded: a lunatic whose mind is deranged till he is restored to
consciousness, a sleeper till he awakes, and a boy till he reaches puberty?
Book 38, Number 4388:
Narrated Ali ibn AbuTalib:
AbuZubyan said: A woman who had committed
adultery was brought to Umar. He gave orders that she should be stoned.
Ali passed by just then. He seized her and
let her go. Umar was informed of it. He said: Ask Ali to come to me. Ali came
to him and said: Commander of the Faithful, you know that the Apostle of Allah
(peace_be_upon_him) said: There are three (people) whose actions are not
recorded: A boy till he reaches puberty, a sleeper till he awakes, a lunatic
till he is restored to reason. This is an idiot (mad) woman belonging to the
family of so and so. Someone might have done this action with her when she
suffered the fit of lunacy.
Umar said: I do not know. Ali said: I do not
know.
Book 38, Number 4389:
Narrated Ali ibn AbuTalib:
The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: There
are three (persons) whose actions are not recorded: a sleeper till he awakes,
a boy till he reaches puberty, and a lunatic till he comes to reason.
Book 38, Number 4390:
Narrated Atiyyah al-Qurazi:
I was among the captives of Banu Qurayzah.
They (the Companions) examined us, and those who had begun to grow hair
(pubes) were killed, and those who had not were not killed. I was among those
who had not grown hair.
Book 38, Number 4394:
Narrated Busr ibn Artat:
Junadah ibn AbuUmayyah said: We were with
Busr ibn Artat on the sea (on an expedition). A thief called Misdar who had
stolen a bukhti she-camel was brought. He said: I heard the Apostle of Allah
(peace_be_upon_him) say: Hands are not to be cut off during a warlike
expedition. Had it not been so, I would have cut it off.
Book 38, Number 4395:
Narrated AbuDharr:
The Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) said
to me: O AbuDharr: I replied: At your service and at your pleasure, Apostle of
Allah! He said: how will you do when death smites people, and a house, meaning
a grave, will cost as much as a slave. I said: Allah and His Apostle know
best, or he said: What Allah and His Apostle choose for me. He said: Show
endurance, or he said: You may show endurance.
Book 38, Number 4396:
Narrated Jabir ibn Abdullah:
A thief was brought to the Prophet
(peace_be_upon_him). He said: Kill him. The people said: He has committed
theft, Apostle of Allah! Then he said: Cut off his hand. So his (right) hand
was cut off. He was brought a second time and he said: Kill him. The people
said: He has committed theft, Apostle of Allah! Then he said: Cut off his
foot.
So his (left) foot was cut off.
He was brought a third time and he said: Kill
him.
The people said: He has committed theft,
Apostle of Allah!
So he said: Cut off his hand. (So his (left)
hand was cut off.)
He was brought a fourth time and he said:
Kill him.
The people said: He has committed theft,
Apostle of Allah!
So he said: Cut off his foot. So his (right)
foot was cut off.
He was brought a fifth time and he said: Kill
him.
So we took him away and killed him. We then
dragged him and cast him into a well and threw stones over him.
Book 38, Number 4397:
Narrated Fadalah ibn Ubayd:
A thief was brought to the Apostle of Allah
(peace_be_upon_him) and his hand was cut off. Thereafter he commanded for it,
and it was hung on his neck.
Book 38, Number 4398:
Narrated AbuHurayrah:
The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: When a
slave steals, sell him, even though it be for half an uqiyah.
Book 38, Number 4403:
Narrated Ubadah ibn as-Samit:
The tradition mentioned above (No. 4401) has
also been transmitted by Ubadah ibn as-Samit through a different chain of
narrators.
This version has: The people said to Sa'd ibn
Ubadah: AbuThabit, the prescribed punishments have been revealed: if you find
a man with your wife, what will you do?
He said: I shall strike them with a sword so
much that they become silent (i.e. die). Should I go and gather four
witnesses? Until that (time) the need would be fulfilled.
So they went away and gathered with the
Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) and said: Apostle of Allah! did you not
see AbuThabit. He said so-and-so.
The Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him)
said: The sword is a sufficient witness. He then said: No, no, a furious and a
jealous man may follow this course.
Book 38, Number 4405:
Narrated Nu'aym ibn Huzzal:
Yazid ibn Nu'aym ibn Huzzal, on his father's
authority said: Ma'iz ibn Malik was an orphan under the protection of my
father. He had illegal sexual intercourse with a slave-girl belonging to a
clan. My father said to him: Go to the Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him)
and inform him of what you have done, for he may perhaps ask Allah for your
forgiveness. His purpose in that was simply a hope that it might be a way of
escape for him.
So he went to him and said: Apostle of Allah!
I have committed fornication, so inflict on me the punishment ordained by
Allah. He (the Prophet) turned away from him, so he came back and said:
Apostle of Allah! I have committed fornication, so inflict on me the
punishment ordained by Allah. He (again) turned away from him, so he came back
and said: Apostle of Allah! I have committed fornication, so inflict on me the
punishment ordained by Allah.
When he uttered it four times, the Apostle of
Allah (peace_be_upon_him) said: You have said it four times. With whom did you
commit it?
He replied: With so and so. He asked: Did you
lie down with her? He replied: Yes. He asked: Had your skin been in contact
with hers? He replied. Yes. He asked: Did you have intercourse with her? He
said: Yes. So he (the Prophet) gave orders that he should be stoned to death.
He was then taken out to the Harrah, and while he was being stoned he felt the
effect of the stones and could not bear it and fled. But Abdullah ibn Unays
encountered him when those who had been stoning him could not catch up with
him. He threw the bone of a camel's foreleg at him, which hit him and killed
him. They then went to the Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) and reported it to him.
He said: Why did you not leave him alone.
Perhaps he might have repented and been forgiven by Allah.
Book 38, Number 4406:
Narrated Jabir ibn Abdullah:
Muhammad ibn Ishaq said: I mentioned the
story of Ma'iz ibn Malik to Asim ibn Umar ibn Qatadah. He said to me: Hasan
ibn Muhammad ibn Ali ibn AbuTalib said to me: Some men of the tribe of Aslam
whom I do not blame and whom you like have transmitted to me the saying of the
Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him): Why did you not leave him alone?
He said: But I did not understand this
tradition. So I went to Jabir ibn Abdullah and said (to him): Some men of the
tribe of Aslam narrate that the Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) said when
they mentioned to him the anxiety of Ma'iz when the stones hurt him: "Why did
you not leave him alone?' But I do not know this tradition.
He said: My cousin, I know this tradition
more than the people. I was one of those who had stoned the man. When we came
out with him, stoned him and he felt the effect of the stones, he cried: O
people! return me to the Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him). My people
killed me and deceived me; they told me that the Apostle of Allah
(peace_be_upon_him) would not kill me. We did not keep away from him till we
killed him. When we returned to the Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) we
informed him of it.
He said: Why did you not leave him alone and
bring him to me? and he said this so that the Apostle of Allah
(peace_be_upon_him) might ascertain it from him. But he did not say this to
abandon the prescribed punishment. He said: I then understood the intent of
the tradition.
Book 38, Number 4407:
Narrated Abdullah ibn Abbas:
Ma'iz ibn Malik came to the Prophet
(peace_be_upon_him) and said that he had committed fornication and he (the
Prophet) turned away from him. He repeated it many times, but he (the Prophet)
turned away from him. He asked his people: Is he mad? They replied: There is
no defect in him. He asked: Have you done it with her? He replied: Yes. so he
ordered that he should be stoned to death. He was taken out and stoned to
death, and he (the Prophet) did not pray over him.
Book 38, Number 4412:
Narrated Abdullah ibn Abbas:
Ma'iz ibn Malik came to the Prophet
(peace_be_upon_him) and admitted fornication twice. But he drove him away. He
then came and admitted fornication twice. But he drove him away. He then came
and admitted fornication twice. He (the Prophet) said: You have testified to
yourself four times. Take him away and stone him to death.
Book 38, Number 4413:
Narrated Abdullah ibn Abbas:
The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said to Ma'iz
ibn Malik: Perhaps you kissed, or squeezed, or looked. He said: No. He then
said: Did you have intercourse with her? He said: Yes. On the (reply) he (the
Prophet) gave order that he should be stoned to death.
Book 38, Number 4414:
Narrated AbuHurayrah:
A man of the tribe of Aslam came to the
Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) and testified four times against himself that he
had had illicit intercourse with a woman, while all the time the Prophet
(peace_be_upon_him) was turning away from him.
Then when he confessed a fifth time, he
turned round and asked: Did you have intercourse with her? He replied: Yes. He
asked: Have you done it so that your sexual organ penetrated hers? He replied:
Yes. He asked: Have you done it like a collyrium stick when enclosed in its
case and a rope in a well? He replied: Yes. He asked: Do you know what
fornication is? He replied: Yes. I have done with her unlawfully what a man
may lawfully do with his wife.
He then asked: What do you want from what you
have said? He said: I want you to purify me. So he gave orders regarding him
and he was stoned to death. Then the Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) heard one of
his companions saying to another: Look at this man whose fault was concealed
by Allah but who would not leave the matter alone, so that he was stoned like
a dog. He said nothing to them but walked on for a time till he came to the
corpse of an ass with its legs in the air.
He asked: Where are so and so? They said:
Here we are, Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him)! He said: Go down and eat
some of this ass's corpse. They replied: Apostle of Allah! Who can eat any of
this? He said: The dishonour you have just shown to your brother is more
serious than eating some of it. By Him in Whose hand my soul is, he is now
among the rivers of Paradise and plunging into them.
Book 38, Number 4420:
Narrated Buraydah ibn al-Hasib:
We, the Companions of the Apostle of Allah
(peace_be_upon_him), used to talk mutually: Would that al-Ghamidiyyah and
Ma'iz ibn Malik had withdrawn after their confession; or he said: Had they not
withdrawn after their confession, he would not have pursued them (for
punishment). He had them stoned after the fourth (confession).
Book 38, Number 4421:
Narrated Al-Lajlaj al-Amiri:
I was working in the market. A woman passed
carrying a child. The people rushed towards her, and I also rushed along with
them.
I then went to the Prophet
(peace_be_upon_him) while he was asking: Who is the father of this (child) who
is with you? She remained silent.
A young man by her side said: I am his
father, Apostle of Allah!
He then turned towards her and asked: Who is
the father of this child with you?
The young man said: I am his father, Apostle
of Allah! The Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) then looked at some of
those who were around him and asked them about him. They said: We only know
good (about him).
The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said to him:
Are you married? He said: Yes. So he gave orders regarding him and he was
stoned to death.
He (the narrator) said: We took him out, dug
a pit for him and put him in it. We then threw stones at him until he died. A
man then came asking about the man who was stoned.
We brought him to the Prophet
(peace_be_upon_him) and said: This man has come asking about the wicked man.
The Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him)
said: He is more agreeable than the fragrance of musk in the eyes of Allah.
The man was his father. We then helped him in washing, shrouding and burying
him. (The narrator said:) I do not know whether he said or did not say "in
praying over him." This is the tradition of Abdah, and it is more accurate.
Book 38, Number 4423:
Narrated Sahl ibn Sa'd:
A man came to the Prophet (peace_be_upon_him)
and confessed before him that he had committed fornication with a woman whom
he named. The Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) sent for the woman and
asked her about it. But she denied that she had committed fornication. So he
inflicted the prescribed punishment of flogging on him, and let her go.
Book 38, Number 4424:
Narrated Jabir ibn Abdullah:
A man committed fornication with a woman. So
the Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) ordered regarding him and the
prescribed punishment of flogging was inflicted on him. He was then informed
that he was married. So he commanded regarding him and he was stoned to death.
Book 38, Number 4426:
Narrated Imran ibn Husayn:
A woman belonging to the tribe of Juhaynah
(according to the version of Aban) came to the Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) and
said that she had committed fornication and that she was pregnant. The Apostle
of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) called her guardian.
Then the Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him)
said to him: Be good to her, and when she bears a child, bring her (to me).
When she gave birth to the child, he brought her (to him). The Prophet
(peace_be_upon_him) gave orders regarding her, and her clothes were tied to
her. He then commanded regarding her and she was stoned to death. He commanded
the people (to pray) and they prayed over her.
Thereupon Umar said: Are you praying over
her, Apostle of Allah, when she has committed fornication?
He said: By Him in Whose hand my soul is, she
has repented to such an extent that if it were divided among the seventy
people of Medina, it would have been enough for them all. And what do you find
better than the fact that she gave her life.
Aban did not say in his version: Then her
clothes were tied to her.
Book 38, Number 4429:
Narrated AbuBakrah:
The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) had a woman
stoned and a pit was dug up to her breasts.
Book 38, Number 4433:
Narrated Al-Bara' ibn Azib:
The people passed by the Apostle of Allah
(peace_be_upon_him) with a Jew who was blackened with charcoal and who was
being flogged.
He called them and said: Is this the
prescribed punishment for a fornicator?
They said: Yes. He then called on a learned
man among them and asked him: I adjure you by Allah Who revealed the Torah to
Moses, do you find this prescribed punishment for a fornicator in your divine
Book?
He said: By Allah, no. If you had not adjured
me about this, I should not have informed you. We find stoning to be
prescribed punishment for a fornicator in our Divine Book. But it
(fornication) became frequent in our people of rank; so when we seized a
person of rank, we left him alone, and when we seized a weak person, we
inflicted the prescribed punishment on him. So we said: Come, let us agree on
something which may be enforced equally on people of higher and lower rank. So
we agreed to blacken the face of a criminal with charcoal, and flog him, and
we abandoned stoning.
The Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) then
said: O Allah, I am the first to give life to Thy command which they have
killed. So he commanded regarding him (the Jew) and he was stoned to death.
Allah Most High then sent down: "O Apostle,
let not those who race one another into unbelief, make thee grieve..." up to
"They say: If you are given this, take it, but if not, beware!...." up to "And
if any do fail to judge by (the light of) what Allah hath revealed, they are
(no better than) unbelievers," about Jews, up to "And if any do fail to judge
by (the right of) what Allah hath revealed, they are no better than)
wrong-doers" about Jews: and revealed the verses up to "And if any do fail to
judge by (the light of) what Allah hath revealed, they are (no better than)
those who rebel." About this he said: This whole verse was revealed about the
infidels.
Book 38, Number 4434:
Narrated Abdullah Ibn Umar:
A group of Jews came and invited the Apostle
of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) to Quff. So he visited them in their school.
They said: AbulQasim, one of our men has
committed fornication with a woman; so pronounce judgment upon them. They
placed a cushion for the Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) who sat on it
and said: Bring the Torah. It was then brought. He then withdrew the cushion
from beneath him and placed the Torah on it saying: I believed in thee and in
Him Who revealed thee.
He then said: Bring me one who is learned
among you. Then a young man was brought. The transmitter then mentioned the
rest of the tradition of stoning similar to the one transmitted by Malik from
Nafi'(No. 4431).
Book 38, Number 4435:
Narrated AbuHurayrah:
(This is Ma'mar's version which is more
accurate.) A man and a woman of the Jews committed fornication.
Some of them said to the others: Let us go to
this Prophet, for he has been sent with an easy law. If he gives a judgment
lighter than stoning, we shall accept it, and argue about it with Allah,
saying: It is a judgment of one of your prophets. So they came to the Prophet
(peace_be_upon_him) who was sitting in the mosque among his companions.
They said: AbulQasim, what do you think about
a man and a woman who committed fornication? He did not speak to them a word
till he went to their school.
He stood at the gate and said: I adjure you
by Allah Who revealed the Torah to Moses, what (punishment) do you find in the
Torah for a person who commits fornication, if he is married?
They said: He shall be blackened with
charcoal, taken round a donkey among the people, and flogged. A young man
among them kept silent.
When the Prophet (peace_be_upon_him)
emphatically adjured him, he said: By Allah, since you have adjured us (we
inform you that) we find stoning in the Torah (is the punishment for
fornication).
The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: So when
did you lessen the severity of Allah's command? He said:
A relative of one of our kings had committed
fornication, but his stoning was suspended. Then a man of a family of common
people committed fornication. He was to have been stoned, but his people
intervened and said: Our man shall not be stoned until you bring your man and
stone him. So they made a compromise on this punishment between them.
The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: So I
decide in accordance with what the Torah says. He then commanded regarding
them and they were stoned to death.
Az-Zuhri said: We have been informed that
this verse was revealed about them: "It was We Who revealed the Law (to
Moses): therein was guidance and light. By its standard have been judged the
Jews, by the Prophet who bowed (as in Islam) to Allah's will.
Book 38, Number 4441:
Narrated Al-Bara' ibn Azib:
while I was wandering in search of my camels
which had strayed, a caravan or some horsemen carrying a standard came
forward. The bedouin began to go round me for my position with the Prophet
(peace_be_upon_him). They came to a domed structure, took out a man from it,
and struck his neck. I asked about him. They told me that he had married his
father's wife.
Book 38, Number 4442:
Narrated Al-Bara' ibn Azib:
I met my uncle who was carrying a standard. I
asked him: Where are you going? He said: The Apostle of Allah
(peace_be_upon_him) has sent me to a man who has married his father's wife. He
has ordered me to cut off his head and take his property.
Book 38, Number 4443:
Narrated An-Nu'man ibn Bashir:
Habib ibn Salim said: A man called
AbdurRahman ibn Hunayn had intercourse with his wife's slave-girl. The matter
was brought to an-Nu'man ibn Bashir who was the Governor of Kufah. He said: I
shall decide between you in accordance with the decision of the Apostle of
Allah (peace_be_upon_him). If she made her lawful for you, I shall flog you
one hundred lashes. If she did not make her lawful for you, I shall stone you
to death. So they found that she had made her lawful for him. He, therefore,
flogged him one hundred lashes.
Book 38, Number 4444:
Narrated An-Nu'man ibn Bashir:
The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: about a
man who had (unlawful) intercourse with his wife's slave girl: If she made her
lawful for him, he will be flogged one hundred lashes; if she did not make her
lawful for him, I shall stone him.
Book 38, Number 4445:
Narrated Salamah ibn al-Muhabbaq:
The Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) made
a decision about a man who had intercourse with his wife's slave-girl as
follows. If he forced her, she is free, and he shall give her mistress a
slave-girl similar to her; if she asked him to have intercourse voluntarily,
she will belong to him, and he shall give her mistress a slave-girl similar to
her.
Book 38, Number 4446:
Narrated Salamah ibn al-Muhabbaq:
A similar tradition (to the No. 4445) has
also been transmitted by Salamah ibn al-Muhabbaq from the Prophet
(peace_be_upon_him).
This version has: If she asked her to have
intercourse with her voluntarily, then she and a similar slave-girl would be
given to her mistress from his property.
Book 38, Number 4447:
Narrated Abdullah ibn Abbas:
The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: If you
find anyone doing as Lot's people did, kill the one who does it, and the one
to whom it is done.
Book 38, Number 4448:
Narrated Abdullah ibn Abbas:
If a man who is not married is seized
committing sodomy, he will be stoned to death.
Book 38, Number 4449:
Narrated Abdullah ibn Abbas:
The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: If
anyone has sexual intercourse with an animal, kill him and kill it along with
him. I (Ikrimah) said: I asked him (Ibn Abbas): What offence can be attributed
to the animal/ He replied: I think he (the Prophet) disapproved of its flesh
being eaten when such a thing had been done to it.
Book 38, Number 4450:
Narrated Abdullah ibn Abbas:
There is no prescribed punishment for one who
has sexual intercourse with an animal.
Book 38, Number 4451:
Narrated Sahl ibn Sa'd:
A man came to the Prophet (peace_be_upon_him)
and made acknowledgment before him that he had committed fornication with a
woman whom he named. The Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) sent someone to
the woman and he asked her about it. She denied that she had committed
fornication. So he gave him the prescribed punishment of Lashes and left her.
Book 38, Number 4452:
Narrated Abdullah ibn Abbas:
A man of Bakr ibn Layth came to the Prophet
(peace_be_upon_him) and made confession four times that he had committed
fornication with a woman, so he had a hundred lashes administered to him. The
man had not been married. He then asked him to produce proof against the
woman, and she said: I swear by Allah, Apostle of Allah, that he has lied.
Then he was given the punishment of eighty lashes of falsehood.
Book 38, Number 4457:
Narrated Some Companions:
AbuUmamah ibn Sahl ibn Hunayf said that some
companions of the Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) told that one of their
men suffered so much from some illness that he pined away until he was skin
and bone (i.e. only a skeleton). A slave-girl of someone visited him, and he
was cheered by her and had unlawful intercourse with her. When his people came
to visit the patient, he told them about it.
He said: Ask the Apostle of Allah
(peace_be_upon_him) about the legal verdict for me, for I have had unlawful
intercourse with a slave-girl who visited me.
So they mentioned it to the Apostle of Allah
(peace_be_upon_him) saying: We have never seen anyone (so weak) from illness
as he is. If we bring him to you, his bones will disintegrate. He is only skin
and bone. So the Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) commanded them to take
one hundred twigs and strike him once.
Book 38, Number 4458:
Narrated Ali ibn AbuTalib:
A slave-girl belonging to the house of the
Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) committed fornication. He (the Prophet)
said: Rush up, Ali, and inflict the prescribed punishment on her. I then
hurried up, and saw that blood was flowing from her, and did not stop. So I
came to him and he said: Have you finished inflicting (punishment on her)? I
said: I went to her while her blood was flowing. He said: Leave her alone till
her bleeding stops; then inflict the prescribed punishment on her. And inflict
the prescribed punishment on those whom your right hands possess (i.e.
slaves).
Book 38, Number 4459:
Narrated Aisha, Ummul Mu'minin:
When my vindication came down, the Prophet
(peace_be_upon_him) mounted the pulpit and mentioned that, and recited the
Qur'an. Then when he came down from the pulpit he ordered regarding the two
men and the woman, and they were given the prescribed punishment.
Book 38, Number 4460:
Narrated Aisha, Ummul Mu'minin:
The tradition mentioned above (No. 4459) has
also been transmitted by Muhammad ibn Ishaq through a different chain of
narrators. But he did not mention Aisha.
This version has: He (the Prophet) commanded
regarding the two men and the woman who spoke obscenity were Hassan ibn Thabit
and Mistah ibn Uthathah. An-Nufayl said: It is said that the woman was Hammah
daughter of Jahsh.
Book 38, Number 4461:
Narrated Abdullah ibn Abbas:
The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) did not
prescribe any punishment for drinking wine. Ibn Abbas said: A man who had
drunk wine and become intoxicated was found staggering on the road, so he was
taken to the Prophet (peace_be_upon_him). When he was opposite al-Abbas's
house, he escaped, and going in to al-Abbas, he grasped hold of him. When that
was mentioned to the Prophet (peace_be_upon_him), he laughed and said: Did he
do that? and he gave no command regarding him.
Book 38, Number 4465:
Narrated Ali ibn AbuTalib:
Hudayn ibn al-Mundhir ar-Ruqashi, who was
AbuSasan, said: I was present with Uthman ibn Affan when al-Walid ibn Uqbah
was brought to him. Humran and another man bore witness against him (for
drinking wine). One of them testified that he had seen him drinking wine, and
the other testified that he had seen him vomiting it.
Uthman said: He could not vomit it, unless he
did not drink it. He said to Ali: Inflict the prescribed punishment on him.
Ali said to al-Hasan: Inflict the prescribed punishment on him.
Al-Hasan said: He who has enjoyed its
pleasure should also bear its burden. So Ali said to Abdullah ibn Ja'far:
Inflict the prescribed punishment on him. He took a whip and struck him with
it while Ali was counting.
When he reached (struck) forty (lashes), he
said: It is sufficient. The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) gave forty lashes. I
think he also said: "And AbuBakr gave forty lashes, and Uthman eighty. This is
all sunnah (standard practice). And this is dearer to me."
Book 38, Number 4466:
Narrated Ali ibn AbuTalib:
The Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) and
AbuBakr gave forty lashes for drinking wine and Umar made it eighty. And all
this is sunnah, the model and standard practice.
Book 38, Number 4467:
Narrated Mu'awiyah ibn AbuSufyan:
The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: If they
(the people) drink wine, flog them, again if they drink it, flog them. Again
if they drink it, kill them.
Book 38, Number 4469:
Narrated AbuHurayrah:
The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: If he
is intoxicated, flog him; again if he is intoxicated, flog him; again if he is
intoxicated, flog him if he does it again a fourth time, kill him.
AbuDawud said: And there is a similar
tradition of Umar ibn AbuSalamah, from his father, on the authority of
AbuHurayrah, from the Prophet (peace_be_upon_him): If he drinks wine, flog him
if he does it so again, a fourth time, kill him.
Book 38, Number 4470:
Narrated Qabisah ibn Dhuwayb:
The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: If
anyone drinks wine, flog him; if he repeats it, flog him, and if he repeats
it, flog him. If he does it again a third or a fourth time, kill him. A man
who had drunk wine was brought (to him) and he gave him lashes. He was again
brought to him, and he flogged him. He was again brought to him and he flogged
him. He was again brought to him and he flogged him. The punishment of killing
(for drinking) was repealed, and a concession was allowed.
Book 38, Number 4472:
Narrated AbdurRahman ibn Azhar:
I can still picture myself looking at the
Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) who was among the camps of the Companions
seeking the camp of Khalid ibn al-Walid, when a man who had drunk wine was
brought before him. He asked the people: Beat him. Some struck him with
sandals, some with sticks and some with fresh branches of the palm-tree
(mitakhah). Ibn Wahb said: This (mitakhah) means green palm fronds. Then the
apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) took some dust from the ground and threw
it on his face.
Book 38, Number 4473:
Narrated AbdurRahman ibn al-Azhar:
A man who had drunk wine was brought before
the Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) when he was in Hunayn. He threw some dust on
his face. He then ordered his Companions and they beat him with their sandals
and whatever they had in their hands. He then said to them: Leave him, and
they left him. The Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) then died, and AbuBakr
gave forty lashes for drinking wine, and then Umar in the beginning of his
Caliphate inflicted forty stripes and at the end of his Caliphate he inflicted
eighty stripes. Uthman (after him) inflicted both punishments, eighty and
forty stripes, and finally Mu'awiyah established eighty stripes.
Book 38, Number 4474:
Narrated AbdurRahman ibn Azhar:
I saw the Apostle of Allah
(peace_be_upon_him) on the morning of the conquest of Mecca when I was a young
boy. He was walking among the people, seeking the camp of Khalid ibn al-Walid.
A man who had drunk wine was brought (before him) and he ordered them (to beat
him). So they beat him with what they had in their hands. Some struck him with
whips, some with sticks and some with sandals. The Apostle of Allah
(peace_be_upon_him) threw some dust on his face.
When a man who had drunk wine was brought
before AbuBakr, he asked them (i.e. the people) about the number of beatings
which they gave him. They numbered it forty. So AbuBakr gave him forty lashes.
When Umar came to power, Khalid ibn al-Walid
wrote to him: The people have become addicted to drinking wine and they look
down upon the prescribed punishment and its penalty.
He said: They are with you, ask them. The
immigrants who embraced Islam in the beginning were with him. He asked them
and they agreed on the fact that (a drunkard) should be given eighty lashes.
Ali said: When a man drinks wine, he tells
lies. I, therefore, think that he should be prescribed punishment that is
prescribed for telling lies..
Book 38, Number 4475:
Narrated Hakim ibn Hizam:
The Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him)
forbade to take retaliation in the mosque, to recite verses in it and to
inflict the prescribed punishments in it.
Book 38, Number 4478:
Narrated AbuHurayrah:
The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: When
one of you inflicts a beating, he should avoid striking the face.
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