كُنْتُ عِنْدَ أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ ع وَ جَاءَهُ كِتَابُ هِشَامِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الْمَلِكِ فِي رَجُلٍ نَبَشَ امْرَأَةً فَسَلَبَهَا ثِيَابَهَا ثُمَّ نَكَحَهَا فَإِنَّ النَّاسَ قَدِ اخْتَلَفُوا عَلَيْنَا هَاهُنَا فَطَائِفَةٌ قَالُوا اقْتُلُوهُ وَ طَائِفَةٌ قَالُوا أَحْرِقُوهُ فَكَتَبَ إِلَيْهِ أَبُو جَعْفَرٍ ع إِنَّ حُرْمَةَ الْمَيِّتِ كَحُرْمَةِ الْحَيِّ حَدُّهُ أَنْ تُقْطَعَ يَدُهُ لِنَبْشِهِ وَ سَلْبِهِ الثِّيَابَ وَ يُقَامَ عَلَيْهِ الْحَدُّ فِي الزِّنَى إِنْ أُحْصِنَ رُجِمَ وَ إِنْ لَمْ يَكُنْ أُحْصِنَ جُلِدَ مِائَةً.
ARead English translationHide English translationHubeAli — attributed by Thaqalayn⌄
Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Adam Bin Is’haq, from Abdullah Bin Muhammad Al Ju’fy who said, ‘I was in the presence of Abu Ja’far asws and there came to him asws a letter of Hisham Bin Abdul Malik (the Caliph) regarding, (saying), ‘A man robbed the grave of a woman, so he took her clothes, then copulated with her. So the people have differed against us over here. So there is a group which are saying, ‘Kill him’, and a group is saying, ‘Burn him’’. So Abu Ja’far asws wrote to him: ‘The sanctity of the deceased is like the sanctity of the living. His Penalty ( Hadd ) is that his hand would be cut due to his robbing the grave and stealing the clothes, and the Penalty ( Hadd ) with regards to adultery would be established upon him – if he was married, stoning, and if he was not married, one hundred lashes’.
Translation: HubeAli — attributed by Thaqalayn·The Arabic above is the original.