1049 – ʿUbādah ibn al-Ṣāmit (d. Allah be pleased with him) reported that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: “Receive from me—receive from me! Allah has now provided a way for them: for a virgin with a virgin the penalty is one hundred lashes and banishment for a year; and for a previously-married person with a previously-married person the penalty is one hundred lashes and stoning.” Related by Muslim (1).

Lexical notes
– “Receive from me”: an announcement concerning a matter whose reality had been obscure and whose ruling had been unknown; its path is now clarified and its verdict made manifest.
– “A way for them”: the “way” referred to is that mentioned in the verse: “As for those of your women who commit indecency, summon four witnesses from among yourselves against them; if they testify, then confine them to the houses until death overtakes them or Allah ordains for them a way” (Q 4:15)—namely: “For a virgin with a virgin: one hundred lashes and a year’s exile; for a previously-married one: one hundred lashes and stoning.”
– al-bikr: one who has never been married, whether man or woman; for a woman it denotes that her virginity (hymen) is intact.
– “Al-bikr bi’l-bikr”: a subject phrase whose predicate is “one hundred lashes,” i.e. the ḥadd for the unmarried fornicator is one hundred lashes.
– al-thayyib: on the pattern fiʿyal, an active participle from thāba (“to return”). It applies to both sexes but is used more often for a woman, because she “returns” to her family in a different condition and has had intercourse after previous intercourse.
– jald: the verb jalada–yajlidu–jaldan; jald denotes striking with a whip. It was so named because—