Al-Siyasa al-Shar'iyya - Ibn Taimiya - (الكتاب/137)

Abū Dāwūd narrated (1) from Ibn Abbās—may Allah be pleased with him—concerning an unmarried man (2) found engaging in sodomy that he said: He is to be stoned.

A similar opinion was narrated from (3) Alī ibn Abī Tālib—may Allah be pleased with him (4).

The Companions did not disagree that he was to be put to death, but they differed regarding the method. It is narrated that al-Siddīq—may Allah be pleased with him—ordered that he be burned; others held that he should be put to death; and some held that a wall should be brought down (5) upon him until he died beneath the rubble. It was also said that the two men should be confined in the foulest place until they died. Others held that he should be taken to the top of the highest wall in the town, thrown from it, and then pelted with stones, just as Allah did to the people of Lot. This is one report from Ibn Abbās—may Allah be pleased with him. According to the other report, he said that the man should be stoned. Most of the early Muslims held this view, and it is the position of the scholars of Medina and Greater Syria and of most hadith jurists, including Ahmad according to the sounder of the two reports from him, and al-Shāfiī according to one of his two opinions (6).

(1) (4463). (2) The original manuscript corruptly reads *al-munkar* (“the objectionable”) instead of *al-bikr* (“the unmarried man”)! (3) The passage from “Ibn Abbās …” to this point is absent from (Z). (4) Narrated by Abd al-Razzāq (7/363–364) and al-Bayhaqī (8/232). (5) (Ẓ, B) read: “he is thrown down from a height; and according to some, he is raised …” The sentence that follows, through “until they die,” is absent from (F). (6) See the reports of the Companions concerning this issue in *Musannaf Ibn Abī Shaybah* (5/496–497) and *Musannaf Abd al-Razzāq* (7/362–364). The passage from “and it is the position …” to this point appears only in the original manuscript.

وروى أبو داود (١) عن ابن عباس ﵁ في البكر (٢) يوجد على اللوطية، قال: يُرْجَم. ورُوِي عن (٣) علي بن أبي طالب ﵁ نحو ذلك (٤). ولم تختلف الصحابةُ في قتله لكن تنوعوا فيه؛ فروي عن الصديق ﵁ أنه أمر بتحريقه، وعن غيره: قتله، وعن بعضهم: أنه يُلقَى (٥) عليه جدار حتى يموت تحت الهدم، وقيل: يُحبسان في أنتَنِ موضع حتى يموتا، وعن بعضهم: أن يُرفع على أعلى جدار في القرية ويُرمى منه ويُتْبع بالحجارة، كما فعل الله بقوم لوط. وهذه رواية عن ابن عباس ﵁ والرواية الأخرى قال: يرجم، وعلى هذا أكثر السلف، وهو مذهب أهل المدينة والشام وأكثر فقهاء الحديث كأحمد في أصح روايتيه والشافعي في أحد قوليه (٦).

(١) (٤٤٦٣). (٢) تحرفت في الأصل إلى «المنكر»! (٣) من قوله: «ابن عباس ... » إلى هنا ساقط من (ز). (٤) أخرجه عبد الرزاق: (٧/ ٣٦٣ - ٣٦٤)، والبيهقي: (٨/ ٢٣٢). (٥) (ظ، ب): «يلقى من شاهق، وعن بعضهم أنه يرفع ... ». والجملة بعده إلى «يموتا» ليست في (ف). (٦) انظر آثار الصحابة في هذه المسألة في «مصنف ابن أبي شيبة»: (٥/ ٤٩٦ - ٤٩٧)، و «مصنف عبد الرزاق»: (٧/ ٣٦٢ - ٣٦٤). ومن قوله: «وهو مذهب ... » إلى هنا من الأصل فقط.