Tag: Q n A, Bukhari

While I was with the Prophet (ﷺ) a man came and said, “O Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ)! I have committed a legally
punishable sin; please inflict the legal punishment on me’.’ The Prophet (ﷺ) did not ask him what he had
done. Then the time for the prayer became due and the man offered prayer along with the Prophet (ﷺ) ,
and when the Prophet (ﷺ) had finished his prayer, the man again got up and said, “O Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ)! I
have committed a legally punishable sin; please inflict the punishment on me according to Allah’s
Laws.” The Prophet (ﷺ) said, “Haven’t you prayed with us?’ He said, “Yes.” The Prophet (ﷺ) said, “Allah has
forgiven your sin.” or said, “….your legally punishable sin.”

A man from the tribe of Aslam came to the Prophet (ﷺ) and confessed that he had committed an illegal
sexual intercourse. The Prophet (ﷺ) turned his face away from him till the man bore witness against
himself four times. The Prophet (ﷺ) said to him, “Are you mad?” He said “No.” He said, “Are you
married?” He said, “Yes.” Then the Prophet (ﷺ) ordered that he be stoned to death, and he was stoned to
death at the Musalla. When the stones troubled him, he fled, but he was caught and was stoned till he
died. The Prophet (ﷺ) spoke well of him and offered his funeral prayer.

A person had sexual relation with his wife in the month of Ramadan
(while he was fasting), and he came to Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) seeking his
verdict concerning that action. The Prophet (ﷺ) said (to him), “Can you
afford to manumit a slave?” The man said, “No.” The Prophet (ﷺ) said, “Can
you fast for two successive months?” He said, “No.” The Prophet (ﷺ) said,
“Then feed sixty poor persons.”

The Prophet (ﷺ) said, “The boy is for (the owner of) the bed and the stone is for the person who commits
illegal sexual intercourse.’

A Jew and a Jewess were brought to Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) on a charge of committing an illegal sexual
intercourse. The Prophet (ﷺ) asked them. “What is the legal punishment (for this sin) in your Book
(Torah)?” They replied, “Our priests have innovated the punishment of blackening the faces with
charcoal and Tajbiya.” `Abdullah bin Salam said, “O Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ), tell them to bring the Torah.”
The Torah was brought, and then one of the Jews put his hand over the Divine Verse of the Rajam
(stoning to death) and started reading what preceded and what followed it. On that, Ibn Salam said to
the Jew, “Lift up your hand.” Behold! The Divine Verse of the Rajam was under his hand. So Allah’s
Apostle ordered that the two (sinners) be stoned to death, and so they were stoned. Ibn `Umar added:
So both of them were stoned at the Balat and I saw the Jew sheltering the Jewess.

A man came to Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) while he was in the mosque, and he called him, saying, “O Allah’s
Apostle! I have committed illegal sexual intercourse.’” The Prophet (ﷺ) turned his face to the other side,
but that man repeated his statement four times, and after he bore witness against himself four times,
the Prophet (ﷺ) called him, saying, “Are you mad?” The man said, “No.” The Prophet (ﷺ) said, “Are you
married?” The man said, “Yes.” Then the Prophet (ﷺ) said, ‘Take him away and stone him to death.” Jabir
bin `Abdullah said: I was among the ones who participated in stoning him and we stoned him at the
Musalla. When the stones troubled him, he fled, but we over took him at Al-Harra and stoned him to
death.

Sa`d bin Abi Waqqas and `Abd bin Zam`a quarrelled with each other (regarding a child). The Prophet (ﷺ)
said, “The boy is for you, O `Abd bin Zam`a, for the boy is for (the owner) of the bed. O Sauda !
Screen yourself from the boy.” The sub-narrator, Al-Laith added (that the Prophet (ﷺ) also said), “And the
stone is for the person who commits an illegal sexual intercourse.”

A man from the tribe of Bani Aslam came to Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) and Informed him that he had committed
illegal sexual intercourse and bore witness four times against himself. Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) ordered him to
be stoned to death as he was a married Person.

A man came to Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) while he was in the mosque, and he called him, saying, “O Allah’s
Apostle! I have committed illegal sexual intercourse.’” The Prophet (ﷺ) turned his face to the other side,
but that man repeated his statement four times, and after he bore witness against himself four times,
the Prophet (ﷺ) called him, saying, “Are you mad?” The man said, “No.” The Prophet (ﷺ) said, “Are you
married?” The man said, “Yes.” Then the Prophet (ﷺ) said, ‘Take him away and stone him to death.” Jabir
bin `Abdullah said: I was among the ones who participated in stoning him and we stoned him at the
Musalla. When the stones troubled him, he fled, but we over took him at Al-Harra and stoned him to
death.

from `Ali when the latter stoned a lady to death on a Friday. `Ali said, “I have stoned her according to
the tradition of Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ).”