English translation
4419. Yazīd bin Nu'aim bin Hazzāl narrated that his father said: “Mā'iz bin Mālik was an orphan in the care of my father. He had intercourse with a slave woman belonging to the tribe, and my father said to him: ‘Go to the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ and tell him what you have done, and perhaps he will pray for forgiveness for you.’ All he meant by that was the hope that there would be a way out for him. He went to him and said: ‘O Messenger of Allāh, I have committed Zinā, carry out the Decree of Allāh on me.’ He turned away from him, but he repeated it and said: ‘O Messenger of Allāh, I have committed Zinā, carry out the Decree of Allāh on me.’ He turned away from him but he repeated it and said: ‘O Messenger of Allāh, I have committed Zinā, carry out the Decree of Allāh on me,’ until he had said it four times. The Prophet ﷺ said: 'You have said it four times. With whom (did you do it)?' He said: 'With so-and-so.' He said: 'Did you lay with her?' He said: 'Yes.' He said: 'Did you touch her?' He said: 'Yes.' He said: 'Did you have intercourse with her?' He said: 'Yes.' So he ordered that he be stoned. He was taken out to Al-Harrah, and when he was stoned and he felt the stones, he panicked and fled, but he was met by 'Abdullāh bin Unais, when those who were stoning him were unable to catch up with him, and he struck him with the bone of a camel's foreleg and killed him. Then he came to the Prophet ﷺ and told him, and he said: 'Why did you not leave him? Perhaps he would have repented, and Allāh would have accepted his repentance.'" (Hasan)