Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah

Hazrat Bakr narrates that a man was brought before Hajjaj who had committed adultery with his daughter. Hajjaj said: I do not understand in what manner I should execute him? And he intended to crucify him. Then Hazrat Abdullah bin Mutarrif and Hazrat Abu Burdah said to him: Allah has granted this Ummah the covering of faults. The preferred trial is that which Islam has covered; you should simply kill him. He said: Both of you have spoken the truth. So, by his order, the man was executed.