Sunan Abi Dawud
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Chapter 40 · Prescribed Punishments (Kitab Al-Hudud)حَدَّثَنَا مُسَدَّدٌ، حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الْوَاحِدِ بْنُ زِيَادٍ، عَنِ الْأَعْمَشِ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ مُرَّةَ، عَنِ الْبَرَاءِ بْنِ عَازِبٍ، قَالَ: مَرُّوا عَلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ بِيَهُودِيٍّ قَدْ حُمِّمَ وَجْهُهُ وَهُوَ يُطَافُ بِهِ، فَنَاشَدَهُمْ: مَا حَدُّ الزَّانِي فِي كِتَابِهِمْ ؟ قَالَ: فَأَحَالُوهُ عَلَى رَجُلٍ مِنْهُمْ، فَنَشَدَهُ النَّبِيُّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: مَا حَدُّ الزَّانِي فِي كِتَابِكُمْ ؟ فَقَالَ: الرَّجْمُ، وَلَكِنْ ظَهَرَ الزِّنَا فِي أَشْرَافِنَا، فَكَرِهْنَا أَنْ يُتْرَكَ الشَّرِيفُ وَيُقَامُ عَلَى مَنْ دُونَهُ، فَوَضَعْنَا هَذَا عَنَّا، فَأَمَرَ بِهِ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ فَرُجِمَ، ثُمَّ قَالَ: اللَّهُمَّ إِنِّي أَوَّلُ مَنْ أَحْيَا مَا أَمَاتُوا مِنْ كِتَابِكَ .
Translation
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The Arabic text and the translations come from our previous collection: English from hadithapi.com, German and Turkish machine-translated (Gemini) and unreviewed. A new translation from the Arabic with the chain of narration will follow.
The people passed by the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم with a jew whose face blackened with charcoal and he was being taken around. He adjured them by Allah and asked: What is the prescribed punishment for a fornicator in your Divine book? He (the narrator) said: They referred him to a man of them. The Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم adjured him and asked: What is the punishment for a fornication in your Divine Book? He replied: Stoning. But fornication spread among our people of rank, so we disliked that a person of rank should be left alone and the punishment be inflicted on one who is lower in rank than him. So we suspended it for us. The Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم then commanded regarding him and he was stoned to death. He then said: O Allah! I am the first to give life to a command of Thy Book which they had killed.