Sunan Ibn Majah 2558
Stoning A Jewish Man And Jewish Woman
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حَدَّثَنَا عَلِيُّ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو مُعَاوِيَةَ عَنِ الأَعْمَشِ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ مُرَّةَ عَنِ الْبَرَاءِ بْنِ عَازِبٍ قَالَ
مَرَّ النَّبِيُّ بِيَهُودِيٍّ مُحَمَّمٍ مَجْلُودٍ فَدَعَاهُمْ فَقَالَ هَكَذَا تَجِدُونَ فِي كِتَابِكُمْ حَدَّ الزَّانِي قَالُوا نَعَمْ فَدَعَا رَجُلاً مِنْ عُلَمَائِهِمْ فَقَالَ أَنْشُدُكَ بِاللَّهِ الَّذِي أَنْزَلَ التَّوْرَاةَ عَلَى مُوسَى أَهَكَذَا تَجِدُونَ حَدَّ الزَّانِي قَالَ لاَ وَلَوْلاَ أَنَّكَ نَشَدْتَنِي لَمْ أُخْبِرْكَ نَجِدُ حَدَّ الزَّانِي فِي كِتَابِنَا الرَّجْمَ وَلَكِنَّهُ كَثُرَ فِي أَشْرَافِنَا فَكُنَّا إِذَا أَخَذْنَا الشَّرِيفَ تَرَكْنَاهُ وَكُنَّا إِذَا أَخَذْنَا الضَّعِيفَ أَقَمْنَا عَلَيْهِ الْحَدَّ فَقُلْنَا تَعَالَوْا فَلْنَجْتَمِعْ عَلَى شَىْءٍ نُقِيمُهُ عَلَى الشَّرِيفِ وَالْوَضِيعِ فَاجْتَمَعْنَا عَلَى التَّحْمِيمِ وَالْجَلْدِ مَكَانَ الرَّجْمِ فَقَالَ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ اللَّهُمَّ إِنِّي أَوَّلُ مَنْ أَحْيَا أَمْرَكَ إِذْ أَمَاتُوهُ وَأَمَرَ بِهِ فَرُجِمَ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- ʿAlī b. Muḥammad
- Abū Muʿāwiyah
- al-Aʿmash
- ʿAbdullāh b. Murrah
- al-Barāʾ b. ʿĀzib
“The Messenger of Allah ﷺ passed by a Jew with a blackened face who had been flogged. He called them and said: 'Is this the punishment for the adulterer that you find in your Book?' They said: 'Yes.' Then he called one of their scholars and said: 'I adjure you by Allah (SWT) Who sent down the Tawrah (Torah) to Musa! Is this the punishment for the adulterer that you find in your Book?' He said: 'No; if you had not adjured me by Allah (SWT), I would not have told you. The punishment for the adulterer that we find in our Book is stoning, but many of our nobles were being stoned (because of the prevalence of adultery among them), so if we caught one of our nobles (committing adultery), we would let him go; but if we caught one of the weak among us, we would carry out the punishment on him. We said: “Come, let us agree upon something that we may impose on both noble and weak alike.” So we agreed to blacken the face and whip them, instead of stoning.' The Prophet ﷺ 'O Allah (SWT), I am the first of those who revive your command which they had killed off,' and he issued orders that (the man) be stoned.”
Grades by grader
| Zubair Ali Zai | Sound | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com |
|---|---|---|
| Muhammad Fuad Abd al-Baqi | Sahih | fawazahmed0 |
| Shuayb al-Arnaut | Sahih | fawazahmed0 |
| al-Albani | Sahih | fawazahmed0 |
Other narrations of this report
Sunan Abi Dawud 3624Sunan Abi Dawud 3626Sunan Abi Dawud 4451Sunan Ibn Majah 2327Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 37696
Narrators
- Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. 72 AH, also said 71 AHالْبَرَاء بْن عَازِب الْأَوْسِيّصحابيعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 99 AH, or 100 AH, or 101 AHعَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ مُرَّةَثقةعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), knowledgeable in the recitations (qirāʾāt), scrupulous (wariʿ), but he practiced concealment (tadlīs)d. Abū ʿAwānah said, and ʿAbd Allāh b. Dāwūd: 147 AH. Wakīʿ said, and more than one: 148 AH. And al-Khaṭīb considered it correct. Also said: 145 AHالْأَعْمَشِثقة حافظ , عارف بالقراءات ورع لكنه يدلسعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), the best memorizer of people for the hadith of al-Aʿmash, though he may err in the hadith of othersd. 194 AH, or 195 AHأَبُو مُعَاوِيَةَثقة ، أحفظ الناس لحديث الأعمش ، وقد يهم في حديث غيرهحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid)d. 233 AH, or shortly before or shortly after it, also said: 235 AHعَلِيُّ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍثقة عابدحدثنا
- one of the imams, a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ)d. 273 AH, or: 275 AHابْنُ مَاجَهْأحد الأئمة ، حافظ
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Commentaries
شرح مشكل الآثار
الاعتبار في الناسخ والمنسوخ
Hāshiyat al-Sindī on Abū Daʿūd
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