English translation
[4440] 28 - (1700) It was narrated that Al-Barâ' bin 'Âzib said: A Jew whose face had been blackened and who had been whipped passed by the Messenger of Allâh ﷺ. 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 Allâh Who sent down the Tawrât (Torah) to Mûsâ, is this how you find the punishment for Zinâ in your Book?" He said: "No. Had you not adjured me (by Allâh), 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 Allâh ﷺ said: "O Allâh, I am the first to
revive Your command which they had made dead.” Then he (ﷺ) ordered that he be stoned, and Allāh revealed: “O Messenger! Let not those who hurry to fall into disbelief grieve you... If you are given this, take it...” (Al-Mā'idah 5:41). He (the Jew) said: Go to Muḥammad (ﷺ), 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 Allāh revealed the words: “And whosoever does not judge by what Allāh has revealed, such are the disbelievers (Al-Mā'idah 5:44), “...And whosoever does not judge by that which Allāh has revealed, such are the wrongdoers (Al-Mā'idah 5:45), “And whosoever does not judge by what Allāh has revealed (then) such (people) are the rebellious to Allāh” (Al-Mā'idah 5:47), all concerning the disbelievers.
Arabic text
28 - (1700) حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ يَحْيَى، وَأَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ، كِلَاهُمَا عَنْ أَبِي مُعَاوِيَةَ، قَالَ يَحْيَى: أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو مُعَاوِيَةَ، عَنِ الْأَعْمَشِ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ مُرَّةَ، عَنِ الْبَرَاءِ بْنِ عَازِبٍ، قَالَ: مُرَّ عَلَى النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ بِيَهُودِيٍّ مُحَمَّمًا مَجْلُودًا، فَدَعَاهُمْ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ، فَقَالَ: «هَكَذَا تَجِدُونَ حَدَّ الزَّانِي فِي كِتَابِكُمْ؟»، قَالُوا: نَعَمْ، فَدَعَا رَجُلًا مِنْ عُلَمَائِهِمْ، فَقَالَ: «أَنْشُدُكَ بِاللهِ الَّذِي أَنْزَلَ التَّوْرَاةَ عَلَى مُوسَى، أَهَكَذَا تَجِدُونَ حَدَّ الزَّانِي فِي كِتَابِكُمْ» قَالَ: لَا، وَلَوْلَا أَنَّكَ نَشَدْتَنِي بِهَذَا لَمْ أُخْبِرْكَ، نَجِدُهُ الرَّجْمَ، وَلَكِنَّهُ كَثُرَ فِي أَشْرَافِنَا، فَكُنَّا إِذَا أَخَذْنَا الشَّرِيفَ تَرَكْنَاهُ، وَإِذَا أَخَذْنَا الضَّعِيفَ أَقَمْنَا عَلَيْهِ الْحَدَّ، قُلْنَا: تَعَالَوْا فَلْنَجْتَمِعْ عَلَى شَيْءٍ نُقِيمُهُ عَلَى الشَّرِيفِ وَالْوَضِيعِ، فَجَعَلْنَا التَّحْمِيمَ، وَالْجَلْدَ مَكَانَ الرَّجْمِ، فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «اللهُمَّ إِنِّي أَوَّلُ مَنْ أَحْيَا أَمْرَكَ إِذْ أَمَاتُوهُ»، فَأَمَرَ بِهِ فَرُجِمَ، فَأَنْزَلَ اللهُ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ: {يَا أَيُّهَا الرَّسُولُ لَا يَحْزُنْكَ الَّذِينَ يُسَارِعُونَ فِي الْكُفْرِ} [المائدة: 41] إِلَى قَوْلِهِ {إِنْ أُوتِيتُمْ هَذَا فَخُذُوهُ} [المائدة: 41]، يَقُولُ: ائْتُوا مُحَمَّدًا صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ، فَإِنْ أَمَرَكُمْ بِالتَّحْمِيمِ وَالْجَلْدِ فَخُذُوهُ، وَإِنْ أَفْتَاكُمْ بِالرَّجْمِ فَاحْذَرُوا، فَأَنْزَلَ اللهُ تَعَالَى {وَمَنْ لَمْ يَحْكُمْ بِمَا أَنْزَلَ اللهُ فَأُولَئِكَ هُمُ الْكَافِرُونَ وَمَنْ لَمْ يَحْكُمْ بِمَا أَنْزَلَ اللهُ فَأُولَئِكَ هُمُ الظَّالِمُونَ وَمَنْ لَمْ يَحْكُمْ بِمَا أَنْزَلَ اللهُ فَأُولَئِكَ هُمُ الْفَاسِقُونَ} فِي الْكُفَّارِ كُلُّهَا،
