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 |
Narrated Abdullah ibn Abbas:
A man of Bakr ibn Layth came to the Prophet (saws) 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, Messenger of Allah, that he has lied. Then he was given the punishment of eighty lashes of falsehood.
| Grade: | Munkar (Al-Albani) | منكر (الألباني) | حكم : |
| Reference | : Sunan Abi Dawud 4467 |
| In-book reference | : Book 40, Hadith 117 |
| English translation | : Book 39, Hadith 4452 |
Narrated Sahl ibn Sa'd:
A man came to the Prophet (saws) and confessed before him that he had committed fornication with a woman whom he named. The Messenger of Allah (saws) 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.
| Grade: | Sahih (Al-Albani) | صحيح (الألباني) | حكم : |
| Reference | : Sunan Abi Dawud 4437 |
| In-book reference | : Book 40, Hadith 87 |
| English translation | : Book 39, Hadith 4423 |
| Grade: | Sahih (Darussalam) |
| Reference | : Sunan Ibn Majah 2554 |
| In-book reference | : Book 20, Hadith 22 |
| English translation | : Vol. 3, Book 20, Hadith 2554 |
Malik related to me from Nafi that Safiyya bint Abi Ubayd informed him that a man who had had intercourse with a virgin slave- girl and made her pregnant was brought to Abu Bakr as-Siddiq. He confessed to fornication, and he was not muhsan. Abu Bakr gave the order and he was flogged with the hadd punishment. Then he was banished to Fadak, (thirty miles from Madina).
Malik spoke about a person who confessed to fornication and then retracted it and said, "I didn't do it. I said that for such-and-such a reason," and he mentioned the reason. Malik said, "That is accepted from him and the hadd is not imposed on him. That is because the hadd is what is for Allah, and it is only applied by one of two means, either by a clear proof which establishes guilt or by a confession which is persisted in so that the hadd is imposed. If someone persists in his confession, the hadd is imposed on him."
Malik said, "I have not seen the people of knowledge exiling slaves who have committed adultery."
| USC-MSA web (English) reference | : Book 41, Hadith 13 |
| Arabic reference | : Book 41, Hadith 1515 |
| 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 |
| Grade: | Sahih (Darussalam) |
| Reference | : Sunan an-Nasa'i 5412 |
| In-book reference | : Book 49, Hadith 34 |
| English translation | : Vol. 6, Book 49, Hadith 5414 |
| Reference | : Sunan an-Nasa'i 1956 |
| In-book reference | : Book 21, Hadith 139 |
| English translation | : Vol. 3, Book 21, Hadith 1958 |
This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Dawud with the same chain of transmitters but with this variation that in the hadith narrated by Sufyan (the words are):
| Reference | : Sahih Muslim 1694c |
| In-book reference | : Book 29, Hadith 33 |
| USC-MSA web (English) reference | : Book 17, Hadith 4204 |
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| Grade: | Sahih (Darussalam) |
| Reference | : Jami` at-Tirmidhi 1429 |
| In-book reference | : Book 17, Hadith 9 |
| English translation | : Vol. 3, Book 15, Hadith 1429 |
Abu Dharr reported,:
| Reference | : Sahih Muslim 94b |
| In-book reference | : Book 1, Hadith 179 |
| USC-MSA web (English) reference | : Book 1, Hadith 172 |
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| Grade: | Sahih (Al-Albani) | صحيح (الألباني) | حكم : |
| Reference | : Sunan Abi Dawud 4418 |
| In-book reference | : Book 40, Hadith 68 |
| English translation | : Book 39, Hadith 4404 |
| صَحِيح (الألباني) | حكم : |
| Reference | : Mishkat al-Masabih 3561 |
| In-book reference | : Book 17, Hadith 7 |
| مُتَّفَقٌ عَلَيْهِ (الألباني) | حكم : |
| Reference | : Mishkat al-Masabih 3557 |
| In-book reference | : Book 17, Hadith 3 |
| Grade: | Hasan (Darussalam) |
| Reference | : Jami` at-Tirmidhi 1428 |
| In-book reference | : Book 17, Hadith 8 |
| English translation | : Vol. 3, Book 15, Hadith 1428 |
| لم تتمّ دراسته (الألباني) | حكم : |
| Reference | : Mishkat al-Masabih 3578 |
| In-book reference | : Book 17, Hadith 24 |
Ibn 'Umar reported that the Jews brought to Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) a man and a woman who had committed adultery. The rest of the hadith is the same.
| Reference | : Sahih Muslim 1699c |
| In-book reference | : Book 29, Hadith 42 |
| USC-MSA web (English) reference | : Book 17, Hadith 4213 |
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Malik related to me from Zayd ibn Aslam that a man confessed to fornication in the time of the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace. The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, called for a whip, and he was brought a broken whip. He said, "Above this," and he was brought a new whip whose knots had not been cut yet. He said, "Below this," and he was brought a whip which had been used and made flexible. The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, gave the order and he was flogged. Then he said, "People! The time has come for you to observe the limits of Allah. Whoever has had any of these ugly things befall him should cover them up with the veil of Allah. Whoever reveals to us his wrong action, we perform what is in the Book of Allah against him."
| USC-MSA web (English) reference | : Book 41, Hadith 12 |
| Arabic reference | : Book 41, Hadith 1514 |
Narrated Sahl ibn Sa'd:
A man came to the Prophet (saws) and made acknowledgment before him that he had committed fornication with a woman whom he named. The Messenger of Allah (saws) 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.
| Grade: | Sahih (Al-Albani) | صحيح (الألباني) | حكم : |
| Reference | : Sunan Abi Dawud 4466 |
| In-book reference | : Book 40, Hadith 116 |
| English translation | : Book 39, Hadith 4451 |
| صَحِيح (الألباني) | حكم : |
| Reference | : Mishkat al-Masabih 3565 |
| In-book reference | : Book 17, Hadith 11 |
| Grade: | Sahih (Darussalam) [, Al-Bukhari (2462) and Muslim (1691) (Darussalam) |
| Reference | : Musnad Ahmad 276 |
| In-book reference | : Book 2, Hadith 188 |
Jabir b. Samura reported:
| Reference | : Sahih Muslim 1692a |
| In-book reference | : Book 29, Hadith 27 |
| USC-MSA web (English) reference | : Book 17, Hadith 4198 |
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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. 'Abbas reported that 'Umar b. Khattab sat on the pulpit of Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) and said:
| Reference | : Sahih Muslim 1691a |
| In-book reference | : Book 29, Hadith 21 |
| USC-MSA web (English) reference | : Book 17, Hadith 4194 |
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| Grade: | Sahih (Darussalam) |
| Reference | : Sunan an-Nasa'i 5411 |
| In-book reference | : Book 49, Hadith 33 |
| English translation | : Vol. 6, Book 49, Hadith 5413 |
| Grade: | Sahih (Darussalam) |
| Reference | : Sunan an-Nasa'i 3469 |
| In-book reference | : Book 27, Hadith 81 |
| English translation | : Vol. 4, Book 27, Hadith 3499 |
Narrated Nu'aym:
Ma'iz came to the Prophet (saws) 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.
| Grade: | Da'if (Al-Albani) | ضعيف (الألباني) | حكم : |
| Reference | : Sunan Abi Dawud 4377 |
| In-book reference | : Book 40, Hadith 27 |
| English translation | : Book 39, Hadith 4364 |
| 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 |
| Sunnah.com reference | : Book 10, Hadith 6 |
| English translation | : Book 10, Hadith 1249 |
| Arabic reference | : Book 10, Hadith 1210 |
| Grade: | Sahih (Darussalam) |
| Reference | : Sunan an-Nasa'i 5410 |
| In-book reference | : Book 49, Hadith 32 |
| English translation | : Vol. 6, Book 49, Hadith 5412 |
'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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Abu Huraira reported that he heard Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying:
| Reference | : Sahih Muslim 1703a |
| In-book reference | : Book 29, Hadith 48 |
| USC-MSA web (English) reference | : Book 17, Hadith 4219 |
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| مُتَّفَقٌ عَلَيْهِ (الألباني) | حكم : |
| Reference | : Mishkat al-Masabih 3560 |
| In-book reference | : Book 17, Hadith 6 |
| Grade: | Sahih (Darussalam) |
| Reference | : Jami` at-Tirmidhi 1433 |
| In-book reference | : Book 17, Hadith 13 |
| English translation | : Vol. 3, Book 15, Hadith 1433 |
| Grade: | Sahih (Al-Albani) | صحيح (الألباني) | حكم : |
| Reference | : Sunan Abi Dawud 4430 |
| In-book reference | : Book 40, Hadith 80 |
| English translation | : Book 39, Hadith 4416 |
Yahya related to me from Malik from Abu'z-Zubayr al-Makki that somebody asked a man for his sister in marriage and the man mentioned that she had committed fornication. Umar ibn al-Khattab heard about it and he beat the man or almost beat him, and said, "What did you mean by giving him such information?"
| USC-MSA web (English) reference | : Book 28, Hadith 53 |
| Arabic reference | : Book 28, Hadith 1148 |
Abu Huraira reported that Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) was asked about the slave-woman who committed adultery and was not protected (married). He said:
| Reference | : Sahih Muslim 1703c |
| In-book reference | : Book 29, Hadith 50 |
| USC-MSA web (English) reference | : Book 17, Hadith 4221 |
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| Grade: | Sahih (Darussalam) |
| Reference | : Sunan Ibn Majah 2555 |
| In-book reference | : Book 20, Hadith 23 |
| English translation | : Vol. 3, Book 20, Hadith 2555 |
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 |
| Grade: | Sahih (Al-Albani) | صحيح (الألباني) | حكم : |
| Reference | : Sunan Abi Dawud 4455 |
| In-book reference | : Book 40, Hadith 105 |
| English translation | : Book 39, Hadith 4440 |
Abd al-Rahman reported that 'Ali, while delivering the address said:
| Reference | : Sahih Muslim 1705a |
| In-book reference | : Book 29, Hadith 53 |
| USC-MSA web (English) reference | : Book 17, Hadith 4224 |
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Narrated Jabir:
A man from the tribe of Aslam came to the Prophet and confessed that he had committed an illegal sexual intercourse. The Prophet turned his face away from him till the man bore witness against himself four times. The Prophet said to him, "Are you mad?" He said "No." He said, "Are you married?" He said, "Yes." Then the Prophet 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 spoke well of him and offered his funeral prayer.
| Reference | : Sahih al-Bukhari 6820 |
| In-book reference | : Book 86, Hadith 48 |
| USC-MSA web (English) reference | : Vol. 8, Book 82, Hadith 810 |
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Abdullah b. 'Umar reported that a Jew and a Jewess were brought to Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) who had committed adultery. Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) came to the Jews and said:
| Reference | : Sahih Muslim 1699a |
| In-book reference | : Book 29, Hadith 40 |
| USC-MSA web (English) reference | : Book 17, Hadith 4211 |
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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 |
Ibn Umar reported that Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) stoned to death the Jews, both male and female, who had committed adultery. The Jews brought them to Allah's Messenger (may peace he upon him). The rest of the hadith is the same.
| Reference | : Sahih Muslim 1699b |
| In-book reference | : Book 29, Hadith 41 |
| USC-MSA web (English) reference | : Book 17, Hadith 4212 |
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Abu Huraira reported that a person from amongst the Muslims came to Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) while he was in the mosque. He called him saying:
| Reference | : Sahih Muslim 1691c |
| In-book reference | : Book 29, Hadith 23 |
| USC-MSA web (English) reference | : Book 17, Hadith 4196 |
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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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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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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 (saws) 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 (saws) 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 (saws) 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 (saws) 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.
| Grade: | Da'if (Al-Albani) | ضعيف (الألباني) | حكم : |
| Reference | : Sunan Abi Dawud 4450 |
| In-book reference | : Book 40, Hadith 100 |
| English translation | : Book 39, Hadith 4435 |
| Grade: | Sahih (Darussalam) |
| Reference | : Jami` at-Tirmidhi 1435 |
| In-book reference | : Book 17, Hadith 17 |
| English translation | : Vol. 3, Book 15, Hadith 1435 |