Hadith record

A number of our companions, from Sahl Bin Ziyad, from Muhammad Bin Al Hassan Bin Shamoun, from Abdullah Bin Abdul Rahman, from Misma’a, (It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah asws that Amir Al-Momineen asws judged regarding four witnesses upon a man who had seen him copulating with a woman. So he was stoned. Then one of them retracted (his statement). He asws said: ‘He would be fined a quarter of the wergild, when he says, ‘It was doubtful to me’. So if two were to retract, and they both say, ‘It was doubtful upon us’, they would both be fined half the wergild. And if all of them were to retract, and they say, ‘It was doubtful upon us’, they would be fined the (complete) wergild. But if they were to say, ‘We testified falsely’, they would be killed all together’.

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