قَالَ لِي سُفْيَانُ الثَّوْرِيُّ إِنِّي أَرَى لَكَ مِنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) مَنْزِلَةً فَسَلْهُ عَنْ رَجُلٍ زَنَى وَ هُوَ مَرِيضٌ إِنْ أُقِيمَ عَلَيْهِ الْحَدُّ مَاتَ مَا تَقُولُ فِيهِ فَسَأَلْتُهُ فَقَالَ هَذِهِ الْمَسْأَلَةُ مِنْ تِلْقَاءِ نَفْسِكَ أَوْ قَالَ لَكَ إِنْسَانٌ أَنْ تَسْأَلَنِي عَنْهَا فَقُلْتُ سُفْيَانُ الثَّوْرِيُّ سَأَلَنِي أَنْ أَسْأَلَكَ فَقَالَ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) إِنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) أُتِيَ بِرَجُلٍ احْتَبَنَ مُسْتَسْقِيَ الْبَطْنِ قَدْ بَدَتْ عُرُوقُ فَخِذَيْهِ وَ قَدْ زَنَى بِامْرَأَةٍ مَرِيضَةٍ فَأَمَرَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) بِعِذْقٍ فِيهِ مِائَةُ شِمْرَاخٍ فَضُرِبَ بِهِ الرَّجُلُ ضَرْبَةً وَ ضُرِبَتْ بِهِ الْمَرْأَةُ ضَرْبَةً ثُمَّ خَلَّى سَبِيلَهُمَا ثُمَّ قَرَأَ هَذِهِ الْآيَةَ وَ خُذْ بِيَدِكَ ضِغْثاً فَاضْرِبْ بِهِ وَ لا تَحْنَثْ .
Translation
Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad Bin Isa, from Ibn Mahboub and Muhammad Bin Ismail Bin Bazie, from Hanan Bin Sudeyr, from Yahya Bin Abbad Al Makky who said, ‘Sufyan said to me, ‘I see for you having a status from Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup>, so ask him<sup>asws</sup> about a man who commits adultery and he is sick. If the Penalty (<span class="iTxt">Hadd</span>) were to be established upon him, he would die. What are you<sup>asws</sup> saying with regards to it?’ So I asked him<sup>asws</sup>, so he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘Is this from yourself or a person told you to ask me<sup>asws</sup> about it?’ So I said, ‘Sufyan Al-Sowry asked me that I should ask you<sup>asws</sup>’. So Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘They came with a man to Rasool-Allah<sup>saww</sup> who sufferred from illness of the belly and the veins of his thighs were visible, and he had committed adultery with a sick woman. So Rasool-Allah<sup>saww</sup> ordered a palm branch which had a hundred stalks to it, so the man was whipped with it by one lash, and the woman was whipped with it with one lash, then he<sup>saww</sup> freed both their ways. Then he<sup>saww</sup> recited this Verse <span class="ibTxt"><a href="/#/books/quran:38#h44"><a href="/books/quran:38#h44">[38:44]</a></a> And take in your hand a green branch and beat with It and do not break your oath</span>’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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