Sayyiduna Ubadah bin al-Samit (may Allah be pleased with him) says: When the verse on the ruling of stoning was revealed to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), he was among his Companions. When revelation came down upon him, a state like sleep would come over him. When the revelation ended, he sat up straight and said: "Allah Almighty has stated the ruling for such women: if a married man commits adultery with a married woman, he will be given a hundred lashes and stoned; and if an unmarried man commits fornication with an unmarried woman, they will be given a hundred lashes and exiled for a year." Some people said to Sayyiduna Sa'd bin Ubadah (may Allah be pleased with him): "O Abu Thabit! The ruling on the hadd punishments has been revealed. What do you think: if you were to find a man with your wife, what would you do?" He said: "I would strike him with the sword until both of them went still. Am I to go and gather four men? By then that wretch will have fulfilled his need and gone. Then I would come and say: 'I saw so-and-so doing such-and-such', and the people would flog me and never accept my testimony." The people laughed. Then the people gathered with the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) and said: "O Messenger of Allah! Have you not seen Abu Thabit? We said such-and-such to him, and he replied with such-and-such." The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The sword suffices as a witness." Then he said: "Were it not that I fear that the intoxicated person or the hot-tempered people would follow one another (in doing the same)." The people said: "O Messenger of Allah! He has the most intense jealousy of all people." The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "He is intensely jealous, I am more protectively jealous than him, and Allah Almighty is more protectively jealous than me; that is why He has prescribed the hadd punishments." (Allamah al-Haythami says:) I say: The beginning of this narration is reported in the "Sahih".
Al-Tabarani recorded it. Its chain contains al-Fadl bin Dalham, who is thiqah (trustworthy); this narration was declared munkar (rejected) from him through this chain only. The rest of its narrators are thiqat (trustworthy). The hadith narrated from Sayyiduna Sa'd bin Ubadah (may Allah be pleased with him) will come later under Surah al-Nur.
Hadith Referenceمجمع الزوائد ومنبع الفوائد / كتاب الحدود والديات / 10591
Hadith Gradingمحدثین:إسنادہ ضعیف
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