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سنن ابي داود
Abu Dawud
كتاب الحدودPrescribed Punishments (Kitab Al-Hudud)
باب فِي رَجْمِ الْيَهُودِيَّيْنِChapter: The stoning of the two jews.
Hadith 4448
اُردوEn
حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْعَلَاءِ ، حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو مُعَاوِيَةَ ، عَنِ الْأَعْمَشِ ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ مُرَّةَ ، عَنِ الْبَرَاءِ بْنِ عَازِبٍ ، قَالَ : " مُرَّ عَلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ بِيَهُودِيٍّ مُحَمَّمٍ مَجْلُودٍ ، فَدَعَاهُمْ ، فَقَالَ : هَكَذَا تَجِدُونَ حَدَّ الزَّانِي ، فَقَالُوا : نَعَمْ ، فَدَعَا رَجُلًا مِنْ عُلَمَائِهِمْ ، قَالَ لَهُ : نَشَدْتُكَ بِاللَّهِ الَّذِي أَنْزَلَ التَّوْرَاةَ عَلَى مُوسَى أَهَكَذَا تَجِدُونَ حَدَّ الزَّانِي فِي كِتَابِكُمْ ؟ فَقَالَ : اللَّهُمَّ لَا وَلَوْلَا أَنَّكَ نَشَدْتَنِي بِهَذَا لَمْ أُخْبِرْكَ ، نَجِدُ حَدَّ الزَّانِي فِي كِتَابِنَا الرَّجْمَ ، وَلَكِنَّهُ كَثُرَ فِي أَشْرَافِنَا فَكُنَّا إِذَا أَخَذْنَا الرَّجُلَ الشَّرِيفَ تَرَكْنَاهُ ، وَإِذَا أَخَذْنَا الرَّجُلَ الضَّعِيفَ أَقَمْنَا عَلَيْهِ الْحَدَّ ، فَقُلْنَا : تَعَالَوْا فَنَجْتَمِعُ عَلَى شَيْءٍ نُقِيمُهُ عَلَى الشَّرِيفِ وَالْوَضِيعِ ، فَاجْتَمَعْنَا عَلَى التَّحْمِيمِ وَالْجَلْدِ وَتَرَكْنَا الرَّجْمَ ، فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ : اللَّهُمَّ إِنِّي أَوَّلُ مَنْ أَحْيَا أَمْرَكَ إِذْ أَمَاتُوهُ ، فَأَمَرَ بِهِ فَرُجِمَ ، فَأَنْزَلَ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ : يَأَ أيُّهَا الرَّسُولُ لا يَحْزُنْكَ الَّذِينَ يُسَارِعُونَ فِي الْكُفْرِ إِلَى قَوْلِهِ يَقُولُونَ إِنْ أُوتِيتُمْ هَذَا فَخُذُوهُ وَإِنْ لَمْ تُؤْتَوْهُ فَاحْذَرُوا سورة المائدة آية 41 إِلَى قَوْلِهِ وَمَنْ لَمْ يَحْكُمْ بِمَا أَنْزَلَ اللَّهُ فَأُولَئِكَ هُمُ الْكَافِرُونَ فِي الْيَهُودِ إِلَى قَوْلِهِ وَمَنْ لَمْ يَحْكُمْ بِمَا أَنْزَلَ اللَّهُ فَأُولَئِكَ هُمُ الظَّالِمُونَ سورة المائدة آية 44 ـ 45 فِي الْيَهُودِ ، إِلَى قَوْلِهِ وَمَنْ لَمْ يَحْكُمْ بِمَا أَنْزَلَ اللَّهُ فَأُولَئِكَ هُمُ الْفَاسِقُونَ سورة المائدة آية 47 " ، قَالَ : هِيَ فِي الْكُفَّارِ كُلُّهَا يَعْنِي هَذِهِ الْآيَةَ .
Narrated Al-Bara ibn Azib: The people passed by the Messenger of Allah ﷺ with a Jew who was blackened with charcoal and who was being flogged. He called them and said: Is this the prescribed punishment for a fornicator? They said: Yes. He then called on a learned man among them and asked him: I adjure you by Allah Who revealed the Torah to Moses, do you find this prescribed punishment for a fornicator in your divine Book? He said: By Allah, no. If you had not adjured me about this, I should not have informed you. We find stoning to be prescribed punishment for a fornicator in our Divine Book. But it (fornication) became frequent in our people of rank; so when we seized a person of rank, we left him alone, and when we seized a weak person, we inflicted the prescribed punishment on him. So we said: Come, let us agree on something which may be enforced equally on people of higher and lower rank. So we agreed to blacken the face of a criminal with charcoal, and flog him, and we abandoned stoning. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ then said: O Allah, I am the first to give life to Thy command which they have killed. So he commanded regarding him (the Jew) and he was stoned to death. Allah Most High then sent down: "O Messenger, let not those who race one another into unbelief, make thee grieve. . . " up to "They say: If you are given this, take it, but if not, beware!. . . . " up to "And if any do fail to judge by (the light of) what Allah hath revealed, they are (no better than) unbelievers, " about Jews, up to "And if any do fail to judge by (the right of) what Allah hath revealed, they are no better than) wrong-doers" about Jews: and revealed the verses up to "And if any do fail to judge by (the light of) what Allah hath revealed, they are (no better than) those who rebel. " About this he said: This whole verse was revealed about the infidels.
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Explanation & Benefits
Shaykh Umar Farooq Saeedi
Benefits and Issues:
To not act and judge according to the Shari‘ah revealed by Allah, and, despite having the ability, to not criticize its neglect in society, is disbelief (kufr), injustice (zulm), and wickedness (fisq).
To not act and judge according to the Shari‘ah revealed by Allah, and, despite having the ability, to not criticize its neglect in society, is disbelief (kufr), injustice (zulm), and wickedness (fisq).
Source: Sunan Abu Dawood – Commentary by Shaykh Umar Farooq Saeedi, Page: 4448
Shaykh Umar Farooq Saeedi
Benefits and Issues:
Reviving a dead Sunnah and acting upon it or causing it to be acted upon is a matter of great determination, and regarding its virtue, it has been narrated that the first person to do so will receive a reward equal to the reward of all those people who act upon it afterwards.
Reviving a dead Sunnah and acting upon it or causing it to be acted upon is a matter of great determination, and regarding its virtue, it has been narrated that the first person to do so will receive a reward equal to the reward of all those people who act upon it afterwards.
Source: Sunan Abu Dawood – Commentary by Shaykh Umar Farooq Saeedi, Page: 4447
Maulana Ataullah Sajid
Benefits and Issues:
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To alter Allah’s laws and then call one’s own fabricated laws “the laws of Allah” is a characteristic of the Jews.
Muslims should avoid this.
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Customs and traditions that are contrary to the Shariah should be conformed to the Shariah.
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Even in the existing versions of the Bible, the punishment of death for the crime of adultery is mentioned.
In the book of Deuteronomy attributed to Musa (alayhis salam), it is recorded as follows:
“If a man is found lying with a married woman, then both of them shall be put to death, the man who lay with the woman and the woman as well.
Thus you shall purge the evil from Israel. If a virgin girl is betrothed to a man, and another man finds her in the city and lies with her, then you shall bring both of them out to the gate of that city and stone them to death, so that they die.” (Deuteronomy, chapter 22, verses 22 to 24)
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The implementation of the law should be equal for both the rich and the poor.
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Concealing the correct ruling is a habit of the Jews.
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It is not permissible to take an oath by other than Allah even from a non-Muslim; rather, the oath should be taken by mentioning an attribute of Allah which he also acknowledges.
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To alter Allah’s laws and then call one’s own fabricated laws “the laws of Allah” is a characteristic of the Jews.
Muslims should avoid this.
➋
Customs and traditions that are contrary to the Shariah should be conformed to the Shariah.
➌
Even in the existing versions of the Bible, the punishment of death for the crime of adultery is mentioned.
In the book of Deuteronomy attributed to Musa (alayhis salam), it is recorded as follows:
“If a man is found lying with a married woman, then both of them shall be put to death, the man who lay with the woman and the woman as well.
Thus you shall purge the evil from Israel. If a virgin girl is betrothed to a man, and another man finds her in the city and lies with her, then you shall bring both of them out to the gate of that city and stone them to death, so that they die.” (Deuteronomy, chapter 22, verses 22 to 24)
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The implementation of the law should be equal for both the rich and the poor.
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Concealing the correct ruling is a habit of the Jews.
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It is not permissible to take an oath by other than Allah even from a non-Muslim; rather, the oath should be taken by mentioning an attribute of Allah which he also acknowledges.
Source: Commentary on Sunan Ibn Mājah by Mawlānā ‘Atā’ullāh Sājid, Page: 2558
