Sahih Muslim Hadith 4440 – Stoning Jews and 0

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[4440] 28 – (1700) It was narrated that Al-Barâ' bin 'Azib said: A Jew whose face had been blackened and who had been whipped passed by the Messenger of Allah He called them and said: "Is this how you find the punishment for Zinâ in your Book?" They said: "Yes." He called one of their scholars and said: "I adjure you by Allah Who sent down the Tawrât (Torah) to Müsã, is this how you find the punishment for Zinâ in your Book?" He said: "No. Had you not adjured me (by Allah), I would not have told you. We find (that the punishment) is stoning, but it became common among our nobles, so, if we caught a noble we would let him go, but if we caught a lowly person we would carry out the punishment on him. We said: Come, let us agree on something that we can impose on noble and lowly alike. So we made (the punishment of) blackening of the face and whipping instead of stoning." The Messenger of Allah said: "0 Allah, I am the first to revive Your command which they had made dead." Then he () ordered that he be stoned, and Allah revealed: "0 Messenger! Let not those who hurry to fall into disbelief grieve you… If you are given this, take it…" (Al- Mâ'idah 5:41). He (the Jew) said: Go to Muhammad (a), and if he orders you to blacken the face and whip him, then accept it, but if he tells you to stone him, then beware. Then Allah revealed the words: "And whosoever does not judge by what Allah has revealed, such are the disbelievers (Al- Mâ'idah 5:44), "…And whosoever does not judge by that which Allah has revealed, such are the wrongdoers (Al-Mâ'idah 5:45), "And whosoever does not judge by what Allah has revealed (then) such (people) are the rebellious to Allah" (Al-Mâ'idah 5:47), all concerning the disbelievers.