Waail bin Hajar reported,

A woman went out during the time of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ intending to pray, when a man met her, covered her, and forced himself upon her. She cried out, but he fled.Then a man passed by her, and she said, "That man did such and such to me."A group of the Muhajirun passed by, and she said to them, "That man did such and such to me."They went off and seized the man whom she thought had assaulted her and brought him to her. She said, "Yes, this is the one."So they brought him to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ. When he ordered that the man be stoned, the actual assailant stood up and said, "Messenger of Allah, I am the one who did it."The Messenger of Allah ﷺ then said to her, "Go, for Allah has forgiven you," and he spoke kindly to the man who had been wrongly accused. To the man who had committed the act, he said, "Stone him."He also said, "He has repented such a Tawba that if the people of Madinah repented likewise, it would be accepted from them."

حدثنا محمد بن يحيى النيسابوري حدثنا محمد بن يوسف عن إسرائيل حدثنا سماك بن حرب

عن علقمة بن وائل الكندي عن أبيه

أن امرأة خرجت على عهد رسول الله ﷺ تريد الصلاة فتلقاها رجل فتجللها فقضى حاجته منها فصاحت فانطلق ومر عليها رجل فقالت إن ذاك الرجل فعل بي كذا وكذا ومرت بعصابة من المهاجرين فقالت إن ذاك الرجل فعل بي كذا وكذا فانطلقوا فأخذوا الرجل الذي ظنت أنه وقع عليها وأتوها فقالت نعم هو هذا فأتوا به رسول الله ﷺ فلما أمر به ليرجم قام صاحبها الذي وقع عليها فقال يا رسول الله أنا صاحبها فقال لها اذهبي فقد غفر الله لك وقال للرجل قولا حسنا وقال للرجل الذي وقع عليها ارجموه وقال لقد تاب توبة لو تابها أهل المدينة لقبل منهم