Jami' at-Tirmidhi 1429

Translation

"A man from the tribe of Aslam came to the Prophet ﷺ and confessed adultery. He turned away from him, the he confessed (again). Then he turned away from him (again) until he had testified against himself four times. So the Prophet ﷺ said: "Are you insane?" He said:"No" He said: "Are you married?" He said: "Yes". So he gave the order and he was stoned at the Musalla. He ran when he was stuck by the stones, and he was caught and stoned until he died. So the Messenger of Allah ﷺ spoke well of him but he did not perform the (funeral) Salat for him.

Notes

• قَالَ أَبُو عِيسَى هَذَا حَدِيثٌ حَسَنٌ صَحِيحٌ وَالْعَمَلُ عَلَى هَذَا الْحَدِيثِ عِنْدَ بَعْضِ أَهْلِ الْعِلْمِ أَنَّ الْمُعْتَرِفَ بِالزِّنَا إِذَا أَقَرَّ عَلَى نَفْسِهِ أَرْبَعَ مَرَّاتٍ أُقِيمَ عَلَيْهِ الْحَدُّ وَهُوَ قَوْلُ أَحْمَدَ وَإِسْحَاقَ وَقَالَ بَعْضُ أَهْلِ الْعِلْمِ إِذَا أَقَرَّ عَلَى نَفْسِهِ مَرَّةً أُقِيمَ عَلَيْهِ الْحَدُّ وَهُوَ قَوْلُ مَالِكِ بْنِ أَنَسٍ وَالشَّافِعِيِّ وَحُجَّةُ مَنْ قَالَ هَذَا الْقَوْلَ حَدِيثُ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ وَزَيْدِ بْنِ خَالِدٍ أَنَّ رَجُلَيْنِ اخْتَصَمَا إِلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ فَقَالَ أَحَدُهُمَا يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ إِنَّ ابْنِي زَنَى بِامْرَأَةِ هَذَا الْحَدِيثَ بِطُولِهِ وَقَالَ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ اغْدُ يَا أُنَيْسُ عَلَى امْرَأَةِ هَذَا فَإِنِ اعْتَرَفَتْ فَارْجُمْهَا وَلَمْ يَقُلْ فَإِنِ اعْتَرَفَتْ أَرْبَعَ مَرَّاتٍ

  machine translationAbū ʿĪsā said: This ḥadīth is good and sound (ḥasan ṣaḥīḥ). Some of the people of knowledge act upon this ḥadīth: that the one who confesses to fornication, when he confesses against himself four times, the prescribed punishment (ḥadd) is carried out on him. This is the view of Aḥmad and Isḥāq. Some of the people of knowledge said: When he confesses against himself once, the prescribed punishment is carried out on him. This is the view of Mālik b. Anas and al-Shāfiʿī. The proof of those who hold this view is the ḥadīth of Abū Hurayrah and Zayd b. Khālid that two men brought a dispute to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, and one of them said: O Messenger of Allah, my son fornicated with the wife of this man, (and he mentioned) the ḥadīth in full. The Prophet ﷺ said: "Go in the morning, O Unays, to the wife of this man, and if she confesses, stone her." He did not say: "if she confesses four times." Report a problem

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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.

• Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī

  تحمل رواية النفي على أنه لم يصل عليه حين رجم ورواية الإثبات على أنه صلى الله عليه وسلم في اليوم الثاني

  machine translationThe report that negates it is taken to mean that he did not pray over him when he was stoned, and the report that affirms it is taken to mean that he ﷺ did so on the second day. Report a problem

  in جامع الترمذي, p. 1509
• al-Bukhari

  لم يقل يونس وابن جريج عن الزهري فصلى عليه سئل أبو عبد الله صلى عليه يصح قال رواه معمر فقيل له رواه غير معمر قال لا

  machine translationYūnus and Ibn Jurayj did not say, from al-Zuhrī, "and he prayed over him." Abū ʿAbd Allāh was asked: Is it authentic that he prayed over him? He said: Maʿmar narrated it. It was said to him: Did anyone other than Maʿmar narrate it? He said: No. Report a problem

  in جامع الترمذي, p. 1509
• al-Tirmidhi

  هذا حديث صحيح

  machine translationThis is a sound (ṣaḥīḥ) hadith. Report a problem

  in جامع الترمذي, p. 1509

Other narrations of this report

Sahih al-Bukhari 6814Musnad Ahmad 21257al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 17063al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 7180al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 8078

Narrators

1. 1
   Jābir b. ʿAbdullāh b. ʿAmr b. Ḥarām al-Anṣārī

   Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. al-Haytham b. ʿAdī said, and Khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ in some reports from them: 68 AH. Abū Sulaymān b. Zabr said: 72 AH. Muḥammad b. Saʿd said, and al-Haytham b. ʿAdī in another report: 73 AH. Muḥammad b. Yaḥyā b. Ḥabbān said: 77 AH. Abū ʿAwn al-Madanī and others said: 78 AH. Abū Nuʿaym and Khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ in another report said: 79 AH
   جَابِرُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَمْرِو بْنِ حَرَامٍ الْأَنْصَارِيُّصحابي
   عن
2. 2
   Abū Salamah b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān

   trustworthy (thiqah), a prolific narrator (mukthir)d. 94 AH, or 104 AH
   أَبِي سَلَمَةَ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِثقة ، مكثر
   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
   الزُّهْرِيِّالفقيه الحافظ ، متفق على جلالته وإتقانه وثبته
   عن
4. 4
   Maʿmar b. Rāshid

   Trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), excellent, except that there is some weakness in his narration from Thābit, al-Aʿmash, ʿĀṣim b. Abī al-Najūd and Hishām b. ʿUrwah, and likewise in what he narrated in Basrad. at the beginning of 150 AH, or: 152 AH, or: 153 AH, or: 154 AH, 155 AH
   مَعْمَرٌثقة ثبت فاضل ، إلا أن في روايته عن ثابت والأعمش وعاصم بن أبي النجود ، وهشام بن عروة شيئا ، وكذا فيما حدث به بالبصرة
   أخبرنا
5. 5
   ʿAbd al-Razzāq

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a renowned author (muṣannif); he went blind at the end of his life and his memory changed (taghayyara), and he had Shiite leanings (kāna yatashayyaʿ)d. 211 AH
   عَبْدُ الرَّزَّاقِثقة حافظ مصنف شهير ، عمي في آخر عمره فتغير ، وكان يتشيع
   حدثنا
6. 6
   al-Ḥasan b. ʿAlī

   trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), who authored worksd. 242 AH, also said: 243 AH
   الْحَسَنُ بْنُ عَلِيٍّثقة حافظ ، له تصانيف
   حدثنا
7. 7
   al-Tirmidhī

   trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 279 AH, in Ikmāl al-Tahdhīb: 275 AH
   التِّرْمِذِيُّثقة حافظ

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

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