Musnad Ahmad 941

Translation

✧ A married adulterer was brought to 'Ali, and he flogged him on Thursday with a hundred lashes, then stoned him on Friday. It was said to him, 'You have combined two punishments for him.' He said, 'I flogged him according to the Book of Allah, and I stoned him according to the Sunnah of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ.'

Notes

• ﷺ ﷺ ﷺ

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What scholars said about it

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• Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr

  ليس بالقوي لأنهم يقولون إن الشعبي لم يسمع منه وهو مشهور قد رواه ابن أبي ليلى وغيره عنه

  machine translationIt is not strong (laysa bi-l-qawī), because they say that al-Shaʿbī did not hear from him, and it is well known; Ibn Abī Laylā and others have narrated it from him. Report a problem

  in مسند أحمد, p. 948

Narrators

1. 1
   ʿAlī b. Abū Ṭālib

   One of the ten (promised Paradise)d. 40 AH
   عَلِيُّ بْنُ أَبِي طَالِبٍأحد العشرة
   قال
2. 2
   al-Shaʿbī

   Trustworthy (thiqah), well-known, a virtuous jurist (faqīh fāḍil)d. 103 AH, said by al-Haytham b. ʿAdī, and Yaḥyā b. Bukayr, Yaḥyā b. Maʿīn, 104 AH, said by Yaḥyā b. Maʿīn, and Ismāʿīl b. Mujālid, and Abū Nuʿaym, and Muḥammad b. ʿImrān al-Bajalī, and ʿUmar b. Shabīb al-Muslī, and ʿAbd Allāh b. Idrīs, 105 AH, said by Isḥāq b. Yaḥyā, Muḥammad b. ʿAbd Allāh b. Numayr, or: 106 AH, said by ʿAlī b. al-Madīnī, and ʿAmr b. ʿAlī, 107 AH, said by ʿAlī b. al-Madīnī, or: 109 AH, said by Ibn Ḥibbān, 110 AH, said by ʿAlī b. ʿAbd Allāh al-Tamīmī
   الشَّعْبِيِّثقة ، مشهور ، فقيه فاضل
   عن
3. 3
   Ismāʿīl b. Sālim

   trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. between 131 and 140 AH
   إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ سَالِمٍثقة ثبت
   حدثنا
4. 4
   Hushaym b. Bashīr

   Trustworthy (thiqah), firmly reliable (thabt), who often practiced tadlīs and hidden irsāl.d. 181 AH, or 183 AH
   هُشَيْمٌثقة ثبت كثير التدليس والإرسال الخفي
   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

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Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.