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4435. It was narrated from 'Abdul-'Aziz bin 'Umar bin 'Abdul-'Aziz, that Khālid bin Al-Lajlāj narrated to him, that his father, Al-Lajlāj informed him, that he was sitting working in the marketplace, when a woman passed by carrying a child. The people rushed towards her and I rushed with them. I came to the Prophet ﷺ and he was saying: "Who is the father of this (child) who is with you?" She remained silent, but a young man who was by her side said: "I am his father, O Messenger of Allāh." The Messenger of Allāh ﷺ looked at some of those who were around him, and asked them about him, and they said: "We know nothing but good (about this man)." The Prophet ﷺ said to him: "Have you been married?" he said: "Yes." So he ordered that he be stoned. He said: "We took him out. We dug a pit for him, and put him there, then we stoned him until he died. Then a man came asking about the one who had been stoned, and we took him to the Prophet ﷺ and said: 'This man has come asking about the evildoer.' He ﷺ said: 'He is better before Allāh than the fragrance of musk.' That man was his father, so we helped him to wash him, and shroud him, and bury him." I do not know whether he mentioned offering the funeral prayer for him or not. This is the Hadith of 'Abdah (one of the
narrators), and it is more complete.
(Hasan)
به.
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It is allowed to dig a pit for stoning to death as the punishment for illegal sexual intercourse, in the case of one who has been married. A person who has been stoned to death should be remembered with good words.
