Mishkat al-Masabih — Hadith #50750

On the authority of Abu Hurairah, he said: Al-Aslami came to the Prophet of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, and testified against himself that he had forbidden sexual intercourse with a woman for four days. Several times, he turned away from all of that, then came back on the fifth day and said: “Have you finished it?” He said: Yes. He said: “Until that was absent from you in that part of it.” He said: Yes. He said: “Just as the water in the kohl pot and the squirt in the well are absent?” He said: Yes. He said: “Do you know what adultery is?” He said: Yes, I did what was forbidden from it. What a man does from his family is permissible. He said: “So what do you mean by this statement?” He said: I want you to purify me. So he ordered that he be stoned and he listened. The Prophet of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, saw two men from his companions, one of them saying to his companion: Look at this man whom God has covered, but you did not let him. He himself was stoned until he stoned the dog, but he remained silent about them. Then he walked for an hour until he passed the carcass of a donkey with its foot straying, and he said: “Where is so-and-so and so-and-so?” They said: We are here, O Messenger of God. He said: “Go down and eat from the carcass of this donkey.” They said: O Prophet of God, who will eat from this? He said: “What you have done to your brother just now is worse than eating from him. By the One in whose hand is my soul, he is now among the rivers of Paradise, immersed in them.” Narrated by Abu Dawood