Musnad Ahmad 18525

Translation

✧ A Jew who had been blackened with charcoal and flogged was brought past the Messenger of Allah ﷺ. He called them and said: Do you find the punishment of the adulterer in your Book like this? They said: Yes. He said: He called one of their scholars and said: I adjure you by Allah, who sent down the Torah upon Moses: do you find the punishment of the adulterer in your Book like this? The man said: No, by Allah. Were it not that you adjured me by this, I would not have informed you. We find the punishment of the adulterer in our Book to be stoning, but it became frequent among our nobles. When we seized a noble, we let him go, and when we seized a weak person, we carried out the punishment on him. So we said: Come, let us agree on something we can apply to noble and lowly alike. We agreed on blackening with charcoal and flogging. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: O Allah, I am the first to revive Your command when they killed it. He said: He ordered him, and he was stoned. Then Allah, Mighty and Majestic, sent down: 'O Messenger, let not those who hasten into disbelief grieve you' up to His saying: 'They say: If you are given this, take it.' They say: Go to Muhammad; if he gives you a ruling of blackening and flogging, accept it, and if he gives you a ruling of stoning, beware. Up to His saying: 'And whoever does not judge by what Allah has sent down—those are the disbelievers.' He said regarding the Jews, up to His saying: 'And whoever does not judge by what Allah has sent down—those are the wrongdoers,' and 'And whoever does not judge by what Allah has sent down—those are the defiantly disobedient.' He said: These verses are all about the disbelievers.

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