Sahih Muslim 1695b

Translation

Messenger of Allah, I have wronged myself; I have committed adultery and I earnestly desire that you should purify me. He turned him away. On the following day, he (Ma'iz) again came to him and said: Messenger of Allah, I have committed adultery. Messenger of Allah ﷺ turned him away for the second time, and sent him to his people saying: Do you know if there is anything wrong with his mind. They denied of any such thing in him and said: We do not know him but as a wise good man among us, so far as we can judge. He (Ma'iz) came for the third time, and he (the Holy Prophet) sent him as he had done before. He asked about him and they informed him that there was nothing wrong with him or with his mind. When it was the fourth time, a ditch was dug for him and he (the Holy Prophet) pronounced judg- ment about him and he wis stoned. He (the narrator) said: There came to him (the Holy Prophet) a woman from Ghamid and said: Messenger of Allah, I have committed adultery, so purify me. He (the Holy Prophet) turned her away. On the following day she said: Messenger of Allah, Why do you turn me away? Perhaps, you turn me away as you turned away Ma'iz. By Allah, I have become pregnant. He said: Well, if you insist upon it, then go away until you give birth to (the child). When she was delivered she came with the child (wrapped) in a rag and said: Here is the child whom I have given birth to. He said: Go away and suckle him until you wean him. When she had weaned him, she came to him (the Holy Prophet) with the child who was holding a piece of bread in his hand. She said: Allah's Apostle, here is he as I have weaned him and he eats food. He (the Holy Prophet) entrusted the child to one of the Muslims and then pronounced punishment. And she was put in a ditch up to her chest and he commanded people and they stoned her. Khalid b Walid came forward with a stone which he flung at her head and there spurted blood on the face of Khalid and so he abused her. Allah's Apostle ﷺ heard his (Khalid's) curse that he had huried upon her. Thereupon he (the Holy Prophet) said: Khalid, be gentle. By Him in Whose Hand is my life, she has made such a repentance that even if a wrongful tax-collector were to repent, he would have been forgiven. Then giving command regarding her, he prayed over her and she was buried.

Notes

• ثُمَّ أَمَرَ بِهَا فَصَلَّى عَلَيْهَا وَدُفِنَتْ

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Sunan Abi Dawud 4442Musnad Ahmad 22949Sunan ad-Darimi 2369Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 29403Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 29405al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 7175

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
   حدثنا
3. 3
   Bashīr b. al-Muhājir

   truthful (ṣadūq), soft in hadith (layyin al-ḥadīth), accused of Irjāʾd. between 141 and 150 AH
   بَشِيرُ بْنُ الْمُهَاجِرِصدوق ، لين الحديث ، رمي بالإرجاء
   حدثنا
4. 4
   Ibn Numayr

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a man of hadith, from the people of the Sunnah (ahl al-sunnah)d. 199 AH
   أَبِيثقة ، صاحب حديث من أهل السنة
   حدثنا
5. 5
   Abū Bakr b. Abī Shaybah

   trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), author of works (ṣāḥib taṣānīf)d. 235 AH, or 234 AH
   أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَثقة حافظ ، صاحب تصانيف
   حدثنا
6. 6
   Muslim

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), an imam, an author of compilations, knowledgeable in jurisprudence (fiqh)d. Muḥammad b. Yaʿqūb said: 261 AH, Makkī b. ʿAbdān said: 259 AH
   مُسْلِمٌثقة حافظ ، إمام ، مصنف ، عالم بالفقه

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