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From: paul@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (Craig Paul)
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Subject: Where was stoning prescribed for Muslims? (Adultery)
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Date: 1 Aug 90 16:28:21 GMT
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I don't believe you will find any reference to the Prophet prescibing
stoning for Muslims. You will, however, find some ahadith in which
Jews came to him and ask him what to do with some Jewish adulterers.
He asked them what the Torah prescribed. One brought the Torah and
started to read to the Prophet, but covered up the prescription for
stoning.

This concealment was brought to the Prophet's attention and he asked
that the hidden prescription be read. It prescribed stoning. He
recommended that the adulterous Jews be stoned, according to their own
holy book. (See both Sahih al Bukhari and Sahih Muslim for these
ahadith.)

Somehow "fiqh" synthesized that "the Prophet stoned and so will we".
Some claimed that a particular Surah in the Qur'an was actually much
longer than the version which had been written, and that the "stoning
verse" had been contained in the unwritten verses. However, that Surah
was revealed (according to the order of Surah/verse revelation in the
Cairo recension of the Qur'an) before the order to "confine adulterous
women in their homes until God finds a way".

If someone can find a particular author who can pinpoint, Chapter and
Verse, in the ahadith of Bukhari and/or Muslim about stoning being
prescribed for Muslims I'd appreciate hearing about it!