Hadith record

Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Amro Bin Usman, from Al Husayn Bin Khalid who said, ‘I said to Abu Al-Hassan asws , ‘Inform me about the married man when he flees from the pit, would he be returned until the Penalty ( Hadd ) (of stoning) is established upon him?’ So he asws said: ‘He would be returned and not returned’. So I said, ‘And how is that?’ So he asws said: ‘If was a confessor upon himself, then he fled from the pit after something having hit him, from the stones, he would not be returned. And if it was so that the proof was established against him, and he was arguing against it, then he flees, he would be returned and would be humiliated until the Penalty ( Hadd ) is established against him. And that is that Maiz Bin Malik accepted in the presence of Rasool-Allah saww with having committed adultery. So he saww ordered that he should be stoned, so he fled from the pit. So Al-Zubeyr Bin Al-Awwam hit him with a left of a camel, so he was injured and fell down. So the people came over and killed him. Then Rasool-Allah saww was informed of that, so he saww said to them: ‘If only you would have left him alone when he fled, he would have gone. But rather, it was he who accepted it upon himself’. And he saww said:’ And if Ali asws had been present with you all, you would not have gone astray’. He asws said: ‘And Rasool-Allah saww paid (his wergild – the blood money) from the public treasury of the Muslims’.

Translation: HubeAli — attributed by Thaqalayn·The Arabic above is the original.