Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 29421
✧ Regarding testimony for fornication, how it is
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حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو أُسَامَةَ عَنْ عَوْفٍ عَنْ قَسَامَةَ بْنِ زُهَيْرٍ قَالَ:
لَمَّا كَانَ مِنْ شَأْنِ أَبِي بَكْرَةَ وَالْمُغِيرَةِ بْنِ شُعْبَةَ الَّذِي كَانَ، قَالَ أَبُو بَكْرَةَ: اجْتَنِبْ - أَوْ تَنَحَّ - عَنْ صَلَاتِنَا، فَإِنَّا لَا نُصَلِّي خَلْفَكَ، قَالَ: فَكَتَبَ إِلَى عُمَرَ فِي شَأْنِهِ، قَالَ: فَكَتَبَ عُمَرُ إِلَى الْمُغِيرَةِ: أَمَّا بَعْدُ ! فَإِنَّهُ قَدْ رَقِيَ إِلَيَّ مِنْ حَدِيثِكَ حَدِيثٌ، فَإِنْ يَكُنْ مَصْدُوقًا عَلَيْكَ فَلَأَنْ تَكُونَ مِتَّ قَبْلَ الْيَوْمِ خَيْرٌ لَكَ، قَالَ: فَكَتَبَ إِلَيْهِ وَإِلَى الشُّهُودِ أَنْ يُقْبِلُوا إِلَيْهِ. فَلَمَّا انْتَهَوْا إِلَيْهِ دَعَا الشُّهُودَ، فَشَهِدُوا، فَشَهِدَ أَبُو بَكْرَةَ وَشِبْلُ بْنُ مَعْبَدٍ وَأَبُو عَبْدِ اللهِ نَافِعٌ [قَالَ] [١]: فَقَالَ عُمَرُ حِينَ شَهِدَ هَؤُلَاءِ الثَّلَاثَةُ: أَوْدَى الْمُغِيرَةَ أَرْبَعَةٌ ! وَشَقَّ عَلَى عُمَرَ شَأْنُهُ جِدًّا، فَلَمَّا قَامَ زِيَادٌ قَالَ: لَنْ يَشْهَدَ - إِنْ شَاءَ اللهُ - إِلَّا بِحَقٍّ، ثُمَّ شَهِدَ فَقَالَ: أَمَّا الزِّنَى فَلَا أَشْهَدُ بِهِ، وَلَكِنِّي قَدْ رَأَيْتُ أَمْرًا قَبِيحًا، فَقَالَ عُمَرُ: اللهُ أَكْبَرُ ! حُدُّوهُمْ، فَجَلَدَهُمْ، فَلَمَّا فَرَغَ مِنْ جَلْدِ أَبِي بَكْرَةَ قَامَ أَبُو بَكْرَةَ فَقَالَ: أَشْهَدُ أَنَّهُ زَانٍ ! فَذَهَبَ عُمَرُ يُعِيدُ عَلَيْهِ الْحَدَّ، فَقَالَ عَلِيٌّ: إِنْ جَلَدْتَهُ فَارْجُمْ صَاحِبَكَ ! فَتَرَكَهُ، فَلَمْ يُجْلَدْ فِي قَذْفٍ مَرَّتَيْنِ بَعْدُ
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When the matter of Abu Bakrah and al-Mughirah ibn Shu'bah occurred as it did, Abu Bakrah said: Keep away from, or step back from, our prayer, for we do not pray behind you. He said: So he wrote to Umar about his affair. He said: Umar wrote to al-Mughirah: To proceed: a report about you has reached me, and if it is true about you, then your having died before today would be better for you. He said: He wrote to him and to the witnesses that they should come to him. When they reached him, he summoned the witnesses, and they testified. Abu Bakrah, Shibl ibn Ma'bad, and Abu 'Abd Allah Nafi' testified. He [said]: Umar said when these three testified: Four have brought al-Mughirah down! The matter weighed very heavily on Umar. When Ziyad stood, he said: He will not testify, if Allah wills, except with truth. Then he testified and said: As for fornication, I do not testify to it, but I have seen a shameful matter. Umar said: Allah is greatest! Flog them. So he flogged them. When he finished flogging Abu Bakrah, Abu Bakrah stood and said: I testify that he is an adulterer! Umar went to repeat the punishment upon him, but Ali said: If you flog him, then stone your companion! So he left him, and he was not flogged for slander twice after that.
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