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4428. Abū Hurairah said: "The Aslamī man came to the Prophet ﷺ and bore witness against himself four times, that he had had illicit intercourse with a woman, and each time the Prophet ﷺ turned away from him. The fifth time he turned to him and said: 'Did you had intercourse with her?' He said: 'Yes.' He said: 'Until that part of yours disappeared into that part of hers?' He said: 'Yes.' He said: 'As the kohl stick disappears into its holder, and the rope disappears into its well?' He said: 'Yes.' He said: 'Do you know what Zinā is?' He said: 'Yes. I have done unlawfully that which a man does lawfully with his wife.' He said: 'What do you want by saying this?' He said: 'I want you to purify me.' So he ordered that he be stoned. The Prophet of Allāh ﷺ heard two of his Companions saying to one another: 'Look at this one whom Allāh had concealed, but he could not keep quiet about it until he was stoned as a dog is stoned.' He did
not say anything to them, then a while later he passed by the carcass of a donkey with its legs in the air. He said: 'Where are so-and-so and so-and-so?' They said: 'We are here, O Messenger of Allāh.' He said: 'Go down and eat from the carcass of this donkey.' They said: 'O Messenger of Allāh, who would eat from this?' He said: 'Your impugning the honor of your brother just now is worse than eating this. By the One in Whose Hand is my soul, now he is in the rivers of Paradise, immersing himself in them.'" (Hasan)
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Allāh said: "Neither backbite one another. Would one of you like to eat the flesh of his dead brother?" (Al-Hujurāt 49:12)
