- "The elderly man and the elderly woman, if they commit adultery, stone them definitively." This is reported from the ḥadīth of ʿUmar, Zayd ibn Thābit, Ubayy ibn Kaʿb, and al-ʿAjmāʾ, the aunt of Abū Umāmah ibn Sahl. 1 - As for the ḥadīth of ʿUmar, Abū Bakr ibn Abī Shaybah said in "al-Muṣannaf" (10/75-76): Ibn ʿUyaynah narrated to us from al-Zuhrī from ʿUbayd Allāh from Ibn ʿAbbās who said: ʿUmar said: I fear that a time will come upon people when someone will say: We do not find stoning in the Book of Allāh, and thus they will go astray by abandoning an obligation that Allāh revealed. Indeed, stoning is a truth if the person is married, or if there is evidence, or if there is pregnancy, or confession. And I have recited it: "The elderly man and the elderly woman..." the ḥadīth, the Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) stoned, and we stoned after him. It was also narrated by Ibn Mājah (2553) through the route of Abū Bakr, and similarly by Muslim (5/116), although he did not provide its wording, and by al-Nasāʾī in "al-Kubrā" (4/273/7156) and al-Bayhaqī (8/211) through two other routes from Sufyān ibn ʿUyaynah. I say: This isnād is authentic according to the criteria of al-Bukhārī and Muslim, and they both included it. Al-Bukhārī (no. 6829) through the route of ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd Allāh, and Muslim through the route of Abū Bakr—as mentioned earlier—both from Sufyān, except that they did not say: "And I have recited it..." etc. Nevertheless, al-Bayhaqī attributed it to them after narrating it, and al-Suyūṭī did the same in "al-Durr al-Manthūr" (5/179-180). Al-Ḍiyāʾ al-Maqdisī also indicated this by not including it in "Musnad ʿUmar" from "al-Aḥādīth al-Mukhtārah," and I followed them in this in my book "al-Irwāʾ" (8/3-4/2338) when I attributed it