A young girl wearing silver ornaments went out in Medina. A Jewish man struck her with a stone. She was brought to the Prophet ﷺ while she still had a faint breath of life left in her.The Messenger of Allah ﷺ asked her, "Did so-and-so kill you?"She raised her head. He repeated the question, "Did so-and-so kill you?"She raised her head again. Then he asked her a third time, "Did so-and-so kill you?"She lowered her head. So the Messenger of Allah ﷺ summoned the man and had him killed between two stones.In another narration, the man was seized and brought to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, who ordered that he be stoned to death, and he was stoned until he died.
خرجت جارية عليها أوضاح بالمدينة، قال: فرماها يهودي بحجر، قال: فجيء بها إلى النبي ﷺ وبها رمق، فقال لها رسول الله ﷺ: فلان قتلك؟ فرفعت رأسها، فأعاد عليها، قال: فلان قتلك؟ فرفعت رأسها، فقال لها في الثالثة: فلان قتلك؟ فخفضت رأسها، فدعا به رسول الله ﷺ فقتله بين الحجرين. وفي رواية: فأخذ فأتي به رسول الله ﷺ فأمر به أن يرجم حتى يموت، فرجم حتى مات.
Bukhari narrated it in the Book of Blood Money (6877), and Muslim narrated it in the Book of Qasama (15:1672), both through Shuba, from Hisham bin Zayd, from Anas bin Malik, and he related it.The second narration in Muslim comes through Abdul-Razzaq, who said, Maamar informed us, from Ayub, from Abu Qilaba, from Anas.His statement, "so he was stoned until he died," does not contradict the first narration that he was killed between two stones. Qadi Iyad said, "Crushing him between two stones, throwing stones at him, and stoning him with them carry the same meaning, and what unites them is that he was struck with a stone or more while his head was against another." Nawawi mentioned this in his commentary on Muslim (11/157).Tirmidhi said, "This is the practice followed by some scholars, and it is the view of Ahmad and Ishaq. Some scholars said, there is no retaliation except by the sword."