Muwatta' Malik 41-6

Translation

Malik related to me from Ibn Shihab from Ubaydullah ibn Abdullah ibn Utba ibn Masud that Abu Hurayra and Zayd ibn Khalid al-Juhani informed him that two men brought a dispute to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ. One of them said, "Messenger of Allah! Judge between us by the Book of Allah!" The other said, and he was the wiser of the two, "Yes, Messenger of Allah. Judge between us by the Book of Allah and give me permission to speak." He said, "Speak." He said, "My son was hired by this person and he committed fornication with his wife. He told me that my son deserved stoning, and I ransomed him for one hundred sheep and a slave-girl. Then I asked the people of knowledge and they told me that my son deserved to be flogged with one hundred lashes and exiled for a year, and they informed me that the woman deserved to be stoned." The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "By him in whose Hand myself is, I will judge between you by the Book of Allah. As for your sheep and slave girl, they should be returned to you. Your son should have one hundred lashes and be exiled for a year." He ordered Unays al-Aslami to go to the wife of the other man and to stone her if she confessed. She confessed and he stoned her.

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What scholars said about it

In their own words, as Hadith Unlocked records them. They are shown, not summarised into a grade.

• Qurṭubī

  عند التعارض حديث مالك أولى لما يعلم من حال مالك وحفظه وضبطه وخصوصا في حديث الزهري فإنه أعرف الناس به

  machine translationWhen there is a conflict, the report of Mālik takes precedence, because of what is known of Mālik's condition, his memory and his precision, especially in the hadith of al-Zuhrī, for he was the most knowledgeable of people regarding it. Report a problem

  in موطأ مالك, p. 1453
• Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr

  ومن أوضح شيء في هذا المعنى وأصحه حديث ابن شهاب في هذا الباب

  machine translationAmong the clearest and most authentic reports on this meaning is the hadith of Ibn Shihāb in this chapter. Report a problem

  in موطأ مالك, p. 1453
• Dāraquṭnī

  يرويه الزهري واختلف عنه فرواه ابن عيينة عن الزهري عن عبيد الله عن أبي هريرة وزيد بن خالد وشبل وخالفه يحيى بن سعيد الأنصاري وصالح بن كيسان فرووه عن الزهري عن عبيد الله عن أبي هريرة وزيد بن خالد ولم يذكروا شبلا وكذلك رواه مالك بن أنس عن الزهري واختلف عنه فرواه أبو عاصم عن مالك عن الزهري عن عبيد الله عن زيد بن خالد وحده ورواه أصحاب الموطأ عن مالك فقالوا فيه عن أبي هريرة وزيد بن خالد وكذلك قال يونس بن يزيد وابن جريج وزمعة وابن أبي حفصة والليث بن سعد وابن أبي ذئب وابن إسحاق وكذلك قال عبد الأعلى عن معمر عن الزهري وخالفه يزيد بن زريع فرواه عن معمر عن الزهري عن عبيد الله عن أبي هريرة وحده وكذلك رواه عمرو بن شعيب وبكر بن وائل عن الزهري عن عبيد الله عن أبي هريرة وحده وهو محفوظ عن أبي هريرة وزيد بن خالد وأما ما قاله ابن عيينة فلم يتابع على قوله عن شبل ورواه الماجشون وصالح بن كيسان وابن أخي الزهري وجماعة عن الزهري عن عبيد الله عن زيد بن خالد وحده مختصرا ورواه ليث بن سعد عن عقيل عن الزهري عن ابن المسيب عن أبي هريرة ولم يتابع عليه ولعله حديث آخر حفظه عقيل عن الزهري والله أعلم

  machine translationAl-Zuhrī narrates it, and there is disagreement about him. Ibn ʿUyaynah narrated it from al-Zuhrī, from ʿUbayd Allāh, from Abū Hurayrah, Zayd b. Khālid and Shibl. Yaḥyā b. Saʿīd al-Anṣārī and Ṣāliḥ b. Kaysān differed from him, and narrated it from al-Zuhrī, from ʿUbayd Allāh, from Abū Hurayrah and Zayd b. Khālid, without mentioning Shibl. Likewise Mālik b. Anas narrated it from al-Zuhrī, and there is disagreement about him as well. Abū ʿĀṣim narrated it from Mālik, from al-Zuhrī, from ʿUbayd Allāh, from Zayd b. Khālid alone. But the transmitters of the Muwaṭṭaʾ narrated it from Mālik and said in it: from Abū Hurayrah and Zayd b. Khālid. Likewise said Yūnus b. Yazīd, Ibn Jurayj, Zamʿah, Ibn Abī Ḥafṣah, al-Layth b. Saʿd, Ibn Abī Dhiʾb and Ibn Isḥāq. Likewise ʿAbd al-Aʿlā said, from Maʿmar, from al-Zuhrī. Yazīd b. Zurayʿ differed from him and narrated it from Maʿmar, from al-Zuhrī, from ʿUbayd Allāh, from Abū Hurayrah alone. Likewise ʿAmr b. Shuʿayb and Bakr b. Wāʾil narrated it from al-Zuhrī, from ʿUbayd Allāh, from Abū Hurayrah alone. It is preserved (maḥfūẓ) from Abū Hurayrah and Zayd b. Khālid. As for what Ibn ʿUyaynah said, he was not followed in his mention of Shibl. Al-Mājishūn, Ṣāliḥ b. Kaysān, the nephew of al-Zuhrī and a group narrated it from al-Zuhrī, from ʿUbayd Allāh, from Zayd b. Khālid alone, in abbreviated form. Layth b. Saʿd narrated it from ʿUqayl, from al-Zuhrī, from Ibn al-Musayyab, from Abū Hurayrah, and he was not followed in it. Perhaps it is another hadith that ʿUqayl preserved from al-Zuhrī, and God knows best. Report a problem

  in موطأ مالك, p. 1453

Narrators

1. 1
   Zayd b. Khālid al-Juhanī

   a well-known Companiond. 68 AH or 72 AH or 78 AH
   زَيْدُ بْنُ خَالِدٍ الْجُهَنِيُّصحابي مشهور
   أخبراه
2. 2
   ʿUbaydullāh b. ʿAbdullāh b. ʿUtbah b. Masʿūd

   trustworthy (thiqah), a jurist (faqīh), firmly reliable (thabt)d. al-Bukhārī said: died before ʿAlī b. al-Ḥusayn, 94 AH or 95 AH, and Ibn Numayr said, and others: died 98 AH, Ibn al-Madīnī said: 99 AH, Abū Nuʿaym said: that ʿAlī b. al-Ḥusayn died 92 AH
   عُبَيْدِ اللهِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ عُتْبَةَ بْنِ مَسْعُودٍثقة فقيه ثبت
   عن
3. 3
   al-Zuhrī

   The jurist and memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), whose eminence, precision and reliability are agreed upond. Ḍamrah b. Rabīʿah and others said: 123 AH. The nephew of al-Zuhrī and others said: 124 AH. Ibn Yūnus and others said: 125 AH
   ابْنِ شِهَابٍالفقيه الحافظ ، متفق على جلالته وإتقانه وثبته
   عن
4. 4
   Mālik b. Anas

   The jurist (al-faqīh), the Imam of the Abode of Migration (Imām Dār al-Hijrah), the head of the proficient masters, and the foremost among the meticulous.d. 178 AH, or 179 AH
   مَالِكٌالفقيه ، إمام دار الهجرة ، رأس المتقنين ، وكبير المتثبتين

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

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