Sunan Ibn Majah 2558

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'Ali ibn Muhammad narrated to us; Abu Mu'awiyah narrated to us, from al-A'mash, from 'Abdullah ibn Murrah, from al-Bara' ibn 'Azib, who said: The Prophet passed by a Jew whose face had been blackened and who had been flogged. He called them and said: Do you find the prescribed punishment for an adulterer thus in your Book? They said: Yes. He summoned one of their scholars and said: I adjure you by Allah, who sent down the Torah to Moses: Is this how you find the punishment for an adulterer? He said: No. Had you not adjured me, I would not have told you. We find stoning as the punishment for the adulterer in our Book, but it became common among our nobles. When we caught a noble, we left him alone; when we caught a weak person, we carried out the punishment upon him. We said: Come, let us agree on something to impose on both noble and lowly alike. So we agreed on blackening the face and flogging instead of stoning. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: O Allah, I am the first to revive Your command after they had extinguished it. He ordered that the man be stoned.