Volume 8, Book 82, Number 842:
Narrated Abu Huraira and Zaid bin Khalid Al-Juhani:
A man came to the Prophet and said, “I beseech you to judge us according to Allah’s Laws.” Then
his opponent who was wiser than he, got up and said, “He has spoken the truth. So judge us accor –
ding to Allah’s Laws and please allow me (to speak), O Allah’s Apostle.” The Prophet said, “Speak.” He
said, “My son was a laborer for the family of this man and he committed illegal sexual intercourse
with his wife, and I gave one-hundred sheep and a slave as a ransom (for my son), but I asked the
religious learned people (regarding this case), and they informed me that my son should be flogged
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one-hundred stripes, and be exiled for one year, and the wife of this man should be stoned (to
death).”The Prophet said, “By Him in Whose Hand my soul is, I will Judge you (in this case) according
to Allah’s Laws. The one-hundred (sheep) and the slave shall be returned to you and your son shall
be flogged one-hundred stripes and be exiled for one year. And O Unais! Go in the morning to the
wife of this man and ask her, and if she confesses, stone her to death.” She confessed and he stoned
her to death.
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Book 84: Dealing with Apostates
Volume 8, Book 82, Number 837:
Narrated Sahl bin Sa’d:
I witnessed the case of Lian (the case of a man who charged his wife for committing illegal sexual
intercourse when I was fifteen years old. The Prophet ordered that they be divorced, and the hus –
band said, “If I kept her, I would be a liar.” I remember that Az-Zubair also said, “(It was said) that if
that woman brought forth the child with such-and-such description, her husband would prove
truthful, but if she brought it with such-and-such description looking like a Wahra (a red insect), he
would prove untruthful.” I heard Az-Zubair also saying, “Finally she gave birth to a child of descrip –
tion which her husband disliked .
Volume 8, Book 82, Number 838:
Narrated Al-Qasim bin Muhammad:
Ibn ‘Abbas mentioned the couple who had taken the oath of Lian. ‘Abdullah bin Shaddad said (to
him), “Was this woman about whom Allah’s Apostle said, ‘If I were ever to stone to death any woman
without witnesses. (I would have stoned that woman to death)?’ Ibn ‘Abbas replied,” No, that lady ex –
posed herself (by her suspicious behavior).”
Volume 8, Book 82, Number 839:
Narrated Ibn Abbas:
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Lian was mentioned in the presence of the Prophet, Asim bin Adi said a statement about it, and
when he left, a man from his tribe came to him complaining that he had seen a man with his wife.
Asim said, “I have been put to trial only because of my statement.” So he took the man to the Prophet
and the man told him about the incident. The man (husband) was of yellow complexion, thin, and of
lank hair, while the man whom he had accused of having been with his wife, was reddish brown
with fat thick legs and fat body. The Prophet said, “O Allah! Reveal the truth.” Later on the lady de –
livered a child resembling the man whom the husband had accused of having been with her. So the
Prophet made them take the oath of Lian. A man said to Ibn Abbas in the gathering, “Was that the
same lady about whom the Prophet said, “If I were to stone any lady (for committing illegal sexual
intercourse) to death without witnesses, I would have stoned that lade to death?” Ibn Abbas said, “No,
that was another lady who used to behave in such a suspicious way among the Muslims that one
might accuse her of committing illegal sexual intercourse.”
Volume 8, Book 82, Number 840:
Narrated Abu Huraira:
The Prophet said, “Avoid the seven great destructive sins.” They (the people!) asked, “O Allah’s
Apostle! What are they?” He said, “To join partners in worship with Allah; to practice sorcery; to kill
the life which Allah has forbidden except for a just cause (according to Islamic law); to eat up usury
(Riba), to eat up the property of an orphan; to give one’s back to the enemy and freeing from the
battle-field at the time of fighting and to accuse chaste women who never even think of anything
touching chastity and are good believers.”
Volume 8, Book 82, Number 841:
Narrated Abu Huraira:
I heard Abu-l-Qasim (the Prophet) saying, “If somebody slanders his slave and the slave is free
from what he says, he will be flogged on the Day of Resurrection unless the slave is really as he has
described him.”
Volume 8, Book 82, Number 832:
Narrated ‘Abdur-Rahman bin Jabir:
On the authority of others, that the Prophet said, “No Punishment exceeds the flogging of the ten
stripes, except if one is guilty of a crime necessitating a legal punishment prescribed by Allah.”
Volume 8, Book 82, Number 833:
Narrated Abu Burda Al-Ansari:
I heard the Prophet saying, “Do not flog anyone more than ten stripes except if he is involved in a
crime necessitating Allah’s legal Punishment.”