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THE UNDETERED PENITENT

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There was a woman from the tribe of Juhainah who committed adultery and became pregnant. She came to the Prophet, praise and peace be upon him, and told him of her sin and requested him to punish her in accordance with the Koranic law.

The Prophet, praise and peace be upon him, sent for her guardian and said to him, "Treat her kindly, and after she has delivered the child, bring her back."

This he did, and the Prophet, praise and peace be upon him, in accordance with the Koranic law, asked for the punishment to be carried out. Her clothes were tied securely around her and she was stoned to death.

After, the Prophet, praise and peace be upon him, led the funeral prayer over her. Omar Farooq remarked, ‘O Messenger of Allah, praise and peace be upon him, she was guilty of adultery yet you are led her funeral prayer.’ ‘Yes,’ he answered, ‘she repented in such away that if her repentance was to be spread over seventy people of Medina it would have sufficed them all. There cannot be a better or higher degree of repentance than this; she chose to speak the truth at the cost of her life for the sake of winning the pleasure of Allah.’

Muslim with a chain up to Imran, the son of Husain Khua'ai who related this.