Sahih Muslim Hadith 4428 – One who confesses

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[44281 20 – (1694) It was narrated from Abfl Sa'eed that a man from Aslam who was called Mâ'iz bin Mâlik came to the Messenger of Allah and said: "I have committed an immoral deed, carry out (the punishment) on me." The Prophet turned him away (from him) several times, then he asked his people about him, and they said: "We do not know of anything wrong with him, except that he has done something, and we think that he feels there is no way out except having the Ijadd punishment carried out on him." He went back to the Messenger of Allah , and he commanded us to stone him. We took him to Baql' Al-Gharqad, and we did not tie him up or dig a pit for him. We threw bones, clods of earth and pebbles at him, and he ran away, so we ran after him, until he reached the stony ground of the Harrah. He stopped there for us, and we threw the heavy stones of the Harrah at him until he stopped moving. Then the Messenger of Allah stood up and delivered a speech in the evening and said: "Every time we went out on a campaign for the sake of Allah, a man would stay behind amongst our families and bleat like a male goat. It is my duty, if a man who has done that is brought to me, to make an example of him." And he () did not pray for forgiveness for him or curse him.