—so they wanted to stone him, but his clan intervened and said, “Our man will not be stoned until you bring your man and stone him first.” The two parties therefore agreed upon this substituted penalty among themselves.

The Prophet—may Allah bless him and grant him peace—then declared, “I rule according to what is in the Torah.” He ordered that the two offenders be stoned, and they were indeed stoned.

Al-Zuhrī said: We have been informed that the verse
“Indeed, We sent down the Torah containing guidance and light; by it the prophets who had submitted themselves used to judge” (al-Māʾidah 5:44)
was revealed concerning this episode, and the Prophet—may Allah bless him and grant him peace—was one of those prophets.

Furthermore, they had previously taken a case of retaliation (qiṣāṣ) between Banū Qurayẓah and Banū al-Naḍīr before him. Al-Naḍīr held higher status than Qurayẓah: if someone from one tribe killed a member of the other, the killer would be executed and the blood money was not doubled; but if the victim belonged to the more prestigious clan, they would execute the culprit and require double the blood money.

Abū Dāwūd Sulaymān ibn al-Ashʿath said in his Sunan: “Muḥammad ibn … narrated to us …”