Abbās, may Allah be pleased with them both, that the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said:

“Whoever you find committing the act of the people of Lot, put to death both the active and the passive partner.”

Abū Dāwūd also narrated that Ibn Abbās, may Allah be pleased with them both, said concerning a man who was not muhsan and was found engaging in anal intercourse with another man: “He is to be stoned.” Something similar is related from Alī ibn Abī Tālib, may Allah be pleased with him. The Companions did not differ over putting him to death, but they differed over the manner of execution.

It is related that al-Siddīq, may Allah be pleased with him, ordered that he be burned, while others prescribed killing him. Some held that a wall should be toppled onto him so that he dies beneath the rubble. It was also said that both men should be confined in the foulest place until they die. Others held that he should be taken to the top of the highest wall in the town, thrown from it, and have stones hurled after him, just as Allah did to the people of Lot. This is one report from Ibn Abbās. In the other report, he said: “He is to be stoned.”

This was the position of most of the early generations. They argued that Allah stoned the people of Lot and prescribed stoning for the adulterer as a punishment corresponding to His stoning of the people of Lot. Both men are therefore to be stoned, whether both are free, both are slaves, or one is a slave and the other free, provided that both have reached puberty. If one has not reached puberty, he is to receive a punishment short of death, and only the one who has reached puberty is to be stoned.