Jabir b. Samura reported that there was brought to Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) a short-statured person with thick uncombed hair, muscular body, having a mantle around him and he had committed adultery. He turned him away twice and then made pronouncement about him and he was stoned. Then Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) said:
| Reference | : Sahih Muslim 1692b |
| In-book reference | : Book 29, Hadith 28 |
| USC-MSA web (English) reference | : Book 17, Hadith 4199 |
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| Grade: | Sahih (Al-Albani) | صحيح (الألباني) | حكم : |
| Reference | : Sunan Abi Dawud 4445 |
| In-book reference | : Book 40, Hadith 95 |
| English translation | : Book 39, Hadith 4430 |
'Abdullah b. Buraida reported on the authority of his father that Ma'iz b. Malik al-Aslami came to Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) and said:
| Reference | : Sahih Muslim 1695b |
| In-book reference | : Book 29, Hadith 35 |
| USC-MSA web (English) reference | : Book 17, Hadith 4206 |
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| Grade: | Sahih (Darussalam) |
| Reference | : Jami` at-Tirmidhi 1157 |
| In-book reference | : Book 12, Hadith 12 |
| English translation | : Vol. 1, Book 7, Hadith 1157 |
| Sunnah.com reference | : Book 10, Hadith 5 |
| English translation | : Book 10, Hadith 1248 |
| Arabic reference | : Book 10, Hadith 1209 |
| Grade: | Sahih because of corroborating evidence and its isnad is interrupted] (Darussalam) |
| Reference | : Musnad Ahmad 1328 |
| In-book reference | : Book 5, Hadith 729 |
| Grade: | Sahih (Darussalam) |
| Reference | : Jami` at-Tirmidhi 1435 |
| In-book reference | : Book 17, Hadith 17 |
| English translation | : Vol. 3, Book 15, Hadith 1435 |
| Grade: | Sahih (Darussalam) |
| Reference | : Jami` at-Tirmidhi 1434 |
| In-book reference | : Book 17, Hadith 16 |
| English translation | : Vol. 3, Book 15, Hadith 1434 |
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 Messenger of Allah (saws) 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: Messenger 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: Messenger 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: Messenger of Allah! I have committed fornication, so inflict on me the punishment ordained by Allah.
When he uttered it four times, the Messenger of Allah (saws) 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 (saws) and reported it to him.
He said: Why did you not leave him alone. Perhaps he might have repented and been forgiven by Allah.
| صحيح دون قوله لعله أن (الألباني) | حكم : |
| Reference | : Sunan Abi Dawud 4419 |
| In-book reference | : Book 40, Hadith 69 |
| English translation | : Book 39, Hadith 4405 |
Imran b. Husain reported that a woman from Juhaina came to Allah's Apostle (may peace be upon him) and she had become pregnant because of adultery. She said:
| Reference | : Sahih Muslim 1696a |
| In-book reference | : Book 29, Hadith 36 |
| USC-MSA web (English) reference | : Book 17, Hadith 4207 |
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| مُتَّفق عَلَيْهِ (الألباني) | حكم : |
| Reference | : Mishkat al-Masabih 3555 |
| In-book reference | : Book 17, Hadith 1 |
| Grade: | Hasan (Darussalam) |
| Reference | : Jami` at-Tirmidhi 1428 |
| In-book reference | : Book 17, Hadith 8 |
| English translation | : Vol. 3, Book 15, Hadith 1428 |
| Grade: | Sahih (Darussalam) |
| Reference | : Sunan Ibn Majah 2558 |
| In-book reference | : Book 20, Hadith 26 |
| English translation | : Vol. 3, Book 20, Hadith 2558 |
| Grade: | Sahih lighairihi, but this isnad is Da'if because of the weakness of Jabir al-Ju'fi (Darussalam) |
| Reference | : Musnad Ahmad 41 |
| In-book reference | : Book 1, Hadith 40 |
Malik related to me from Ibn Shihab from Ubaydullah ibn Abdullah ibn Utba ibn Masud that Abu Hurayra and Zayd ibn Khalid al-Juhani informed him that two men brought a dispute to the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace. One of them said, "Messenger of Allah! Judge between us by the Book of Allah!" The other said, and he was the wiser of the two, "Yes, Messenger of Allah. Judge between us by the Book of Allah and give me permission to speak." He said, "Speak." He said, "My son was hired by this person and he committed fornication with his wife. He told me that my son deserved stoning, and I ransomed him for one hundred sheep and a slave-girl. Then I asked the people of knowledge and they told me that my son deserved to be flogged with one hundred lashes and exiled for a year, and they informed me that the woman deserved to be stoned." The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, "By him in whose Hand myself is, I will judge between you by the Book of Allah. As for your sheep and slave girl, they should be returned to you. Your son should have one hundred lashes and be exiled for a year." He ordered Unays al-Aslami to go to the wife of the other man and to stone her if she confessed . She confessed and he stoned her.
| USC-MSA web (English) reference | : Book 41, Hadith 6 |
| Arabic reference | : Book 41, Hadith 1508 |
| Grade: | Sahih (Darussalam) |
| Reference | : Jami` at-Tirmidhi 1433 |
| In-book reference | : Book 17, Hadith 13 |
| English translation | : Vol. 3, Book 15, Hadith 1433 |
Malik related to me from Ibn Shihab from Ubaydullah ibn Abdullah ibn Utba ibn Masud that Abdullah ibn Abbas said, "I heard Umar ibn al- Khattab say, 'Stoning is in the Book of Allah for those who commit adultery, men or women when they are muhsan and when there is clear proof of pregnancy or a confession.' "
| USC-MSA web (English) reference | : Book 41, Hadith 8 |
| Arabic reference | : Book 41, Hadith 1510 |
Narrated Ikrimah:
The Holy Prophet (saws) said to Ibn Suriya': I remind you by Allah Who saved you from the people of Pharaoh, made you cover the sea, gave you the shade of clouds, sent down to you manna and quails, sent down you Torah to Moses, do you find stoning (for adultery) in your Book? He said: You have reminded me by the Great. It is not possible for me to belie you. He then transmitted the rest of the tradition.
| Grade: | Sahih (Al-Albani) | صحيح (الألباني) | حكم : |
| Reference | : Sunan Abi Dawud 3626 |
| In-book reference | : Book 25, Hadith 56 |
| English translation | : Book 24, Hadith 3619 |
| صَحِيح (الألباني) | حكم : |
| Reference | : Mishkat al-Masabih 3558 |
| In-book reference | : Book 17, Hadith 4 |
Narrated Aisha, Ummul Mu'minin:
The Messenger of Allah (saws) 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.
| Grade: | Sahih (Al-Albani) | صحيح (الألباني) | حكم : |
| Reference | : Sunan Abi Dawud 4353 |
| In-book reference | : Book 40, Hadith 3 |
| English translation | : Book 39, Hadith 4339 |
| Grade: | Sahih (Darussalam) |
| Reference | : Sunan Ibn Majah 2555 |
| In-book reference | : Book 20, Hadith 23 |
| English translation | : Vol. 3, Book 20, Hadith 2555 |
It has been narrated on the authority of Amir b. Sa'd b. Abu Waqqas who said:
| Reference | : Sahih Muslim 1822a |
| In-book reference | : Book 33, Hadith 11 |
| USC-MSA web (English) reference | : Book 20, Hadith 4483 |
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Malik related to me that Ibn Shihab informed him that a man confessed that he had committed adultery in the time of the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, and he testified against himself four times, so the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, gave the order and he was stoned.
Ibn Shihab said, "Because of this a man is to be taken for his own confession against himself."
| USC-MSA web (English) reference | : Book 41, Hadith 4 |
| Arabic reference | : Book 41, Hadith 1506 |
| صَحِيح (الألباني) | حكم : |
| Reference | : Mishkat al-Masabih 3561 |
| In-book reference | : Book 17, Hadith 7 |
| Grade: | Sahih (Darussalam) |
| Reference | : Sunan Ibn Majah 2550 |
| In-book reference | : Book 20, Hadith 18 |
| English translation | : Vol. 3, Book 20, Hadith 2550 |
Narrated Al-Bara' ibn Azib:
The people passed by the Messenger of Allah (saws) 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 Messenger of Allah (saws) 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.
| Grade: | Sahih (Al-Albani) | صحيح (الألباني) | حكم : |
| Reference | : Sunan Abi Dawud 4448 |
| In-book reference | : Book 40, Hadith 98 |
| English translation | : Book 39, Hadith 4433 |
Abu Dharr reported:
| Reference | : Sahih Muslim 94d |
| In-book reference | : Book 12, Hadith 42 |
| USC-MSA web (English) reference | : Book 5, Hadith 2175 |
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| Grade: | Da'if (Al-Albani) | ضعيف (الألباني) | حكم : |
| Reference | : Sunan Abi Dawud 4451 |
| In-book reference | : Book 40, Hadith 101 |
| English translation | : Book 39, Hadith 4436 |
| Grade: | Sahih (Al-Albani) | صحيح (الألباني) | حكم : |
| Reference | : Sunan Abi Dawud 4442 |
| In-book reference | : Book 40, Hadith 92 |
| English translation | : Book 39, Hadith 4428 |
| لم تتمّ دراسته (الألباني) | حكم : |
| Reference | : Mishkat al-Masabih 3544 |
| In-book reference | : Book 16, Hadith 90 |
Narrated Abdullah Ibn Umar:
A group of Jews came and invited the Messenger of Allah (saws) 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 Messenger of Allah (saws) 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).
| Grade: | Hasan (Al-Albani) | حسن (الألباني) | حكم : |
| Reference | : Sunan Abi Dawud 4449 |
| In-book reference | : Book 40, Hadith 99 |
| English translation | : Book 39, Hadith 4434 |
| حسن (الألباني) | حكم : |
| Reference | : Mishkat al-Masabih 3581 |
| In-book reference | : Book 17, Hadith 27 |
| Grade: | Sahih (Al-Albani) | صحيح (الألباني) | حكم : |
| Reference | : Sunan Abi Dawud 4422 |
| In-book reference | : Book 40, Hadith 72 |
| English translation | : Book 39, Hadith 4408 |
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 Messenger of Allah (saws) 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.
| صحيح دون قوله لعل الذي (الألباني) | حكم : |
| Reference | : Sunan Abi Dawud 4402 |
| In-book reference | : Book 40, Hadith 52 |
| English translation | : Book 39, Hadith 4388 |
[Muslim].
| Reference | : Riyad as-Salihin 913 |
| In-book reference | : Book 6, Hadith 20 |
| صَحِيح (الألباني) | حكم : |
| Reference | : Mishkat al-Masabih 3562 |
| In-book reference | : Book 17, Hadith 8 |
| Grade: | Hasan) (Darussalam) |
| Reference | : Musnad Ahmad 452 |
| In-book reference | : Book 4, Hadith 47 |
| Reference | : Bulugh al-Maram 553 |
| In-book reference | : Book 3, Hadith 21 |
| English translation | : Book 3, Hadith 577 |
Narrated Imran ibn Husayn:
A woman belonging to the tribe of Juhaynah (according to the version of Aban) came to the Prophet (saws) and said that she had committed fornication and that she was pregnant. The Messenger of Allah (saws) called her guardian.
Then the Messenger of Allah (saws) 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 (saws) 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, Messenger 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.
| Grade: | Sahih (Al-Albani) | صحيح (الألباني) | حكم : |
| Reference | : Sunan Abi Dawud 4440 |
| In-book reference | : Book 40, Hadith 90 |
| English translation | : Book 39, Hadith 4426 |
| Grade: | Sahih (Darussalam) |
| Reference | : Sunan Ibn Majah 2549 |
| In-book reference | : Book 20, Hadith 17 |
| English translation | : Vol. 3, Book 20, Hadith 2549 |
| Grade: | Sahih (Darussalam) |
| Reference | : Sunan Ibn Majah 2533 |
| In-book reference | : Book 20, Hadith 1 |
| English translation | : Vol. 3, Book 20, Hadith 2533 |
| Sunnah.com reference | : Book 10, Hadith 2 |
| English translation | : Book 10, Hadith 1245 |
| Arabic reference | : Book 10, Hadith 1206 |
[Muslim].
| Reference | : Riyad as-Salihin 22 |
| In-book reference | : Introduction, Hadith 22 |
Narrated AbuHurayrah:
A man of the tribe of Aslam came to the Prophet (saws) and testified four times against himself that he had had illicit intercourse with a woman, while all the time the Prophet (saws) 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 (saws) 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, Messenger of Allah (saws)! He said: Go down and eat some of this ass's corpse. They replied: Messenger 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.
| Grade: | Da'if (Al-Albani) | ضعيف (الألباني) | حكم : |
| Reference | : Sunan Abi Dawud 4428 |
| In-book reference | : Book 40, Hadith 78 |
| English translation | : Book 39, Hadith 4414 |
Malik related to me from Yaqub ibn Zayd ibn Talha from his father Zayd ibn Talha that Abdullah ibn Abi Mulayka informed him that a woman came to the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, and informed him that she had committed adultery and was pregnant. The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said to her, "Go away until you give birth." When she had given birth, she came to him. The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said to her, "Go away until you have suckled and weaned the baby." When she had weaned the baby, she came to him. He said, "Go and entrust the baby to someone." She entrusted the baby to someone and then came to him. He gave the order and she was stoned.
| USC-MSA web (English) reference | : Book 41, Hadith 5 |
| Arabic reference | : Book 41, Hadith 1507 |
Narrated Ibn `Abbas:
I did not see anything so resembling minor sins as what Abu Huraira said from the Prophet, who said, "Allah has written for the son of Adam his inevitable share of adultery whether he is aware of it or not: The adultery of the eye is the looking (at something which is sinful to look at), and the adultery of the tongue is to utter (what it is unlawful to utter), and the innerself wishes and longs for (adultery) and the private parts turn that into reality or refrain from submitting to the temptation."
| Reference | : Sahih al-Bukhari 6612 |
| In-book reference | : Book 82, Hadith 18 |
| USC-MSA web (English) reference | : Vol. 8, Book 77, Hadith 609 |
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Narrated Ibn `Abbas:
I have not seen a thing resembling 'lamam' (minor sins) than what Abu Huraira 'narrated from the Prophet who said "Allah has written for Adam's son his share of adultery which he commits inevitably. The adultery of the eyes is the sight (to gaze at a forbidden thing), the adultery of the tongue is the talk, and the inner self wishes and desires and the private parts testify all this or deny it."
| Reference | : Sahih al-Bukhari 6243 |
| In-book reference | : Book 79, Hadith 17 |
| USC-MSA web (English) reference | : Vol. 8, Book 74, Hadith 260 |
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| Sunnah.com reference | : Book 8, Hadith 187 |
| English translation | : Book 8, Hadith 1134 |
| Arabic reference | : Book 8, Hadith 1123 |
Narrated Sahl bin Sa`d:
A man said, "O Allah's Apostle! If a man finds another man with his wife, (committing adultery) should the husband kill him?" Later on I saw them (the man and his wife) doing Li`an in the mosque (taking oaths, one accusing, and the other denying adultery).
| Reference | : Sahih al-Bukhari 423 |
| In-book reference | : Book 8, Hadith 73 |
| USC-MSA web (English) reference | : Vol. 1, Book 8, Hadith 415 |
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Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying. Allah fixed the very portion of adultery which a man will indulge in. There would be no escape from it. The adultery of the eye is the lustful look and the adultery of the ears is listening to voluptuous (song or talk) and the adultery of the tongue is licentious speech and the adultery of the hand is the lustful grip (embrace) and the adultery of the feet is to walk (to the place) where he intends to commit adultery and the heart yearns and desires which he may or may not put into effect.
| Reference | : Sahih Muslim 2658a |
| In-book reference | : Book 46, Hadith 33 |
| USC-MSA web (English) reference | : Book 33, Hadith 6422 |
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