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1435. Imrān bin Ḥuṣain narrated: "A woman from Juhainah confessed before the Prophet ﷺ that she had committed adultery, and she said: 'I am pregnant.' So the Prophet ﷺ called for her guardian and said: 'Be good to her and if she gives birth to her child then tell me.' So he did so, and then he ﷺ gave the order that her clothes be bound tightly around her. Then he ordered her to be stoned and she was stoned. Then he performed (funeral) Ṣalāt for her. So 'Umar bin Al-Khaṭṭāb said to him: 'O Messenger of Allāh! You stoned her then you prayed for her?!' He said: 'She has repented a repentance that, if distributed among seventy of the people of Al-Maḏinah, it would have sufficed them. Have you ever seen something more virtuous than her sacrificing herself for the sake of Allāh?'" (Ṣaḥīḥ)
[Abū 'Eisā said:] This Ḥadīth is [Hasan] Ṣaḥīḥ.
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The funeral prayer should be performed after stoning a fornicator. Most of the scholars support this point of view. According to Imām Mālik and Imām Ahmad, elites of the society, the ruler, or head of the town, or city, should not perform the funeral prayer of a fornicator, but this is against a Ṣaḥīḥ and
clear narration. (Sahīh Muslim with An-Nawawī. v.2. p. 68.) It is agreed upon that a woman will not be stoned to death until the birth of the child. This is to save the child who is innocent.
