Some people passed by the Messenger of Allah ﷺ with a Jewish man whose face had been blackened with charcoal, and he was being paraded around. The Prophet ﷺ adjured them by Allah to tell him what the prescribed punishment for the adulterer was in their Book.They referred him to one of their men, so the Prophet ﷺ adjured him, "What is the prescribed punishment for the adulterer in your Book?"The man replied, "Stoning. But adultery became widespread among our nobles, and we disliked leaving the noble unpunished while carrying out the punishment on those beneath him, so we set this aside."The Messenger of Allah ﷺ then ordered that the man be stoned, and he was stoned. Then he said, "O Allah, I am the first to revive what they killed of Your Book."
حدثنا مسدد حدثنا عبد الواحد بن زياد عن الأعمش عن عبد الله بن مرة
مروا على رسول الله ﷺ بيهودي قد حمم وجهه وهو يطاف به فناشدهم ما حد الزاني في كتابهم قال فأحالوه على رجل منهم فنشده النبي ﷺ ما حد الزاني في كتابكم فقال الرجم ولكن ظهر الزنا في أشرافنا فكرهنا أن يترك الشريف ويقام على من دونه فوضعنا هذا عنا فأمر به رسول الله ﷺ فرجم ثم قال اللهم إني أول من أحيا ما أماتوا من كتابك
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Reported by Muslim, in the Book of Legal Punishments, Chapter on stoning People of the Book (Jews) among the protected minorities for fornication, hadith no. 1700, from the hadith of Amash through this same chain.