Bara bin Azib reported,

A Jewish man whose face had been blackened with soot and who had been flogged was brought past the Messenger of Allah ﷺ. He called them and asked, "Is this how you find the punishment for the adulterer in your book?"They replied, "Yes."Then he summoned one of their scholars and said to him, "I adjure you by Allah, who sent down the Torah to Musa, is this how you find the punishment for the adulterer in your book?"The scholar answered, "By Allah, no. Were it not that you have placed me under this oath, I would not have told you. We find the punishment for the adulterer in our book to be stoning. But it became widespread among our nobility, so when we caught a noble man we let him go, and when we caught a weak man we carried out the punishment on him. So we said, 'Come, let us agree on something we can apply to both the noble and the lowly.' We agreed on blackening the face and flogging, and abandoned stoning."The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "O Allah, I am the first to revive Your command when they had killed it." He then ordered that the man be stoned, and he was stoned.Allah then revealed, "Messenger, do not let those who hasten into disbelief grieve you" up to His words, "saying, 'If you are given this, take it, but if you are not given it, then beware'" up to His words, "And whoever does not judge by what Allah has revealed, those are the disbelievers" concerning the Jews, up to His words, "And whoever does not judge by what Allah has revealed, those are the wrongdoers" concerning the Jews, up to His words, "And whoever does not judge by what Allah has revealed, those are the defiantly disobedient" [Maidah 5:41–47].He said, "It applies to all the disbelievers," meaning this verse.

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عن البراء بن عازب قال

مر على رسول الله ﷺ بيهودي محمم مجلود فدعاهم فقال هكذا تجدون حد الزاني فقالوا نعم فدعا رجلا من علمائهم قال له نشدتك بالله الذي أنزل التوراة على موسى أهكذا تجدون حد الزاني في كتابكم فقال اللهم لا ولولا أنك نشدتني بهذا لم أخبرك نجد حد الزاني في كتابنا الرجم ولكنه كثر في أشرافنا فكنا إذا أخذنا الرجل الشريف تركناه وإذا أخذنا الرجل الضعيف أقمنا عليه الحد فقلنا تعالوا فنجتمع على شيء نقيمه على الشريف والوضيع فاجتمعنا على التحميم والجلد وتركنا الرجم فقال رسول الله ﷺ اللهم إني أول من أحيا أمرك إذ أماتوه فأمر به فرجم فأنزل الله عز وجل {يا أيها الرسول لا يحزنك الذين يسارعون في الكفر} إلى قوله {يقولون إن أوتيتم هذا فخذوه وإن لم تؤتوه فاحذروا} إلى قوله {ومن لم يحكم بما أنزل الله فأولئك هم الكافرون} في اليهود إلى قوله {ومن لم يحكم بما أنزل الله فأولئك هم الظالمون} في اليهود إلى قوله {ومن لم يحكم بما أنزل الله فأولئك هم الفاسقون} قال هي في الكفار كلها يعني هذه الآية