Musnad Ahmad 22949

Translation

✧ I was sitting with the Prophet ﷺ when a woman from Ghamid came to him and said: "O Prophet of God, I have committed adultery and I want you to purify me." The Prophet ﷺ said to her: "Return." The next day she came again and confessed adultery to him, saying: "O Messenger of God, I have committed adultery and I want you to purify me." The Prophet ﷺ said to her: "Return." The next day she came again and confessed adultery to him, saying: "O Prophet of God, purify me, for perhaps you will send me back as you sent back Ma'iz b. Malik. By God, I am pregnant." The Prophet ﷺ said to her: "Return until you give birth." When she gave birth, she came carrying the child and said: "O Prophet of God, this one I have given birth to." He said: "Go and nurse him until you wean him." When she weaned him, she came with the child, in whose hand was a piece of bread, and said: "O Prophet of God, this one I have weaned." The Prophet ﷺ ordered that the child be taken and handed over to a man among the Muslims. He ordered that a pit be dug for her, and she was placed in it up to her chest. Then he ordered the people to stone her. Khalid b. al-Walid came forward with a stone and threw it at her head, and blood splashed onto Khalid's cheek, so he cursed her. The Prophet ﷺ heard his cursing her and said: "Gently, O Khalid b. al-Walid, do not curse her, for by the One in whose hand is my soul, she has repented with a repentance that, if a tax collector were to repent with it, he would be forgiven." Then he ordered that she be prayed over, and she was buried.

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What scholars said about it

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• Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr

  انتظار الفطام محفوظ صحيح في حديث بريدة الأسلمي

  machine translationWaiting for the weaning is preserved (maḥfūẓ) and authentic (ṣaḥīḥ) in the hadith of Buraydah al-Aslamī. Report a problem

  in مسند أحمد, p. 23358
• Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr

  ثبت من حديث بريدة مراعاة الفطام وهي زيادة يجب قبولها

  machine translationIt is established in the hadith of Buraydah that the weaning was to be awaited, and this is an addition (ziyādah) that must be accepted. Report a problem

  in مسند أحمد, p. 23358
• الزيلعى

  فيه بشير بن المهاجر وفيه مقال

  machine translationIn it is Bashīr b. al-Muhājir, and there is some criticism concerning him (fīhi maqāl). Report a problem

  in مسند أحمد, p. 23358
• Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr

  أحسن إسناد لهذا الحديث حديث بريدة

  machine translationThe best chain of transmission (isnād) for this hadith is the hadith of Buraydah. Report a problem

  in مسند أحمد, p. 23358

Same hadith, other wordings

• Bulughul Maram 553{ ثُمَّ أَمَرَ بِهَا فَصُلِّيَ عَلَيْهَا وَدُفِنَتْ }

Other narrations of this report

Sahih Muslim 1695bSunan Abi Dawud 4442

Narrators

1. 1
   Buraydah b. al-Ḥuṣayb al-Aslamī

   Companion (ṣaḥābī), who accepted Islam before Badrd. 62 AH, or 63 AH
   بُرَيْدَة بْن الْحُصَيْب الْأَسْلَمِيّصحابي ، أسلم قبل بدر
   عن
2. 2
   ʿAbdullāh b. Buraydah

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 105 AH, or 115 AH
   عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ بُرَيْدَةَثقة
   حدثني
3. 3
   Bashīr b. al-Muhājir

   truthful (ṣadūq), soft in hadith (layyin al-ḥadīth), accused of Irjāʾd. between 141 and 150 AH
   بَشِيرٌصدوق ، لين الحديث ، رمي بالإرجاء
   حدثنا
4. 4
   Abū Nuʿaym

   trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 218 AH, 219 AH
   أَبُو نُعَيْمٍثقة ثبت
   حدثنا
5. 5
   Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a jurist (faqīh), an authority (ḥujjah).d. 241 AH, Abū Umayyah Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm al-Ṭarsūsī said: 242 AH, and no one followed him in his view
   أحمد بن حنبلثقة حافظ فقيه حجة

Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com

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