454 – Buraidah (may Allah be pleased with him) reported: “In the case of the woman from the tribe of Ghamid whom the Prophet ﷺ ordered to be stoned for adultery, he then commanded that the funeral prayer be performed for her, and she was buried.” Recorded by Muslim (1).

Vocabulary of the ḥadith
• al-Ghamidiyyah: A woman belonging to the Ghamid clan of the Azd, a tribe located in the south of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia whose principal town is al-Bāḥah.
• The story of al-Ghamidiyyah: She came to the Prophet ﷺ, confessed that she was pregnant through adultery, and after she had delivered and weaned her child, he ordered her to be stoned; stoning is the throwing of stones at the offender until death.