Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 30699 — The one guilty of zina: how many

Abu Uthman bin Nasr reports that his father said: I was among those who stoned Sayyiduna Ma'iz (may Allah be pleased with him). When he felt the pain of the stones, he began to say: Take me back to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him). I rejected this. The narrator said: I came to Asim bin Umar and said: Al-Hasan bin Muhammad Ibn al-Hanafiyyah says: Word has reached me! But I rejected it. Then I came to Sayyiduna Jabir (may Allah be pleased with him) and said: Al-Aslami has mentioned something of the words of Ma'iz bin Malik (may Allah be pleased with him): Take me back. I reject that! He replied: I was among those who stoned him. And he said: He felt the pain of the stones and said: Take me back to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), for my people have put me in trouble, and the people said: Go to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), he will not kill you. But we did not leave him until we had killed him. Then when his state was mentioned before the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Why did you not leave him so that I could look into his situation?