Hadith record

Ali Bin Ibrahim, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad Bin Khalid, (It has been narrated) raising it to Amir Al-Momineen asws , said, ‘A man came over to him asws at Al-Kufa, so he said, ‘O Amir Al-Momineen asws ! I had committed adultery, so purify me’. He asws said: ‘From where are you (coming from)?’ He said, ‘From Muzeyna’. He asws said: ‘Have you read anything from the Quran?’ He said, ‘Yes’. He asws said: ‘So read’. So he read, and it was good (recitation). So he asws said: ‘Are you with insanity’. He said, ‘No’. He asws said: ‘So go away, until we ask about you’. So the man went away. Then he returned to him asws afterwards, so he said, ‘O Amir Al-Momineen asws ! I have committed adultery, so purify me’. So he asws said: ‘Is there a wife for you?’ He said, ‘Yes’. He asws said: ‘Is she staying with you in the city?’ He said, ‘Yes’. So Amir Al-Momineen asws ordered him, So go away until we ask about you’. So he sent someone to his people who asked about his news. So they said, ‘O Amir Al-Momineen asws ! He is of correct mind’. So he returned to him for the third time, and he said to him similar to his words before. So he asws said to him: ‘Go away until we ask about you’. So he returned to him for the fourth time. So when he confessed, Amir Al-Momineen asws said to Qanbar: ‘Keep him locked up’. Then he asws got annoyed, then said: ‘There is nothing more uglier with the man from you that he comes to one of these immoralities, so he disgraces himself upon the chiefs of the tribes. Why did he not repent in his own house, for by Allah azwj , his repentance between him and Allah azwj is superior than my asws establishing the Penalty ( Hadd ) upon him’. And he called out among the people: ‘O group of the Muslims! Come out for the establishment of the Penalty ( Hadd ) upon this man, and not one of you should be able to recognise his companion’. So he asws brought him out to the wilderness. So he said, ‘Respite me, O Amir Al-Momineen asws , while I Pray two cycles’. Then he asws placed him in his pit, and the people faced him. So he asws said: ‘O group of the Muslims! This is a right from the Rights of Allah azwj Mighty and Majestic! So the one whom had (such) a right upon his own neck, so let him disperse, and he should not establish the Penalties of Allah azwj , the one on whose neck is due a Penalty ( Hadd ) of Allah azwj ’. So the people dispersed and there remained himself asws , and Al-Hassan asws and Al-Husayn asws . So he asws grabbed the stones, exclaimed the Greatness of Allah azwj with three exclamations, then pelted him with three stones, during each stone, three exclamations. Then Al-Hassan asws pelted him similarly to what Amir Al-Momineen asws had pelted him. Then Al-Husayn asws pelted him asws . So the man died, and Amir Al-Momineen asws brought him out. So he asws ordered for a grave to be dug out for him, and Prayed over him, and buried him. So it was said, ‘O Amir Al-Momineen asws ! Will you not wash him (before burying him)?’ So he asws said: ‘He has been washed by what has purified him up to the Day of Judgement. He was patient upon a grievous matter’.

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