Nevertheless, the hadith under discussion supports it, and it may also be supported by what al-Ṭabarānī reported in al-Muʿjam al-Kabīr (no. 3794), from Yaḥyā al-Ḥammānī: Munkadir ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Munkadir informed us, from his father, from Khuzaymah ibn Maʿmar al-Anṣārī, who said: “A woman was stoned to death in the time of the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, and the people said: ‘Her deeds have come to nothing.’ When that reached the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, he said: ‘It expiates her sins, and she will be resurrected to account for whatever remains besides that.’”

Al-Haythamī said in al-Majmaʿ (6/265): “Al-Ṭabarānī narrated it, and its chain includes Yaḥyā ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd al-Ḥammānī, who is weak.”

I say: Munkadir ibn Muḥammad is also weak in hadith, as stated in al-Taqrīb. Thus, overlooking him while declaring the report defective on account of someone beneath him is not sound.

1756 — “Any man who shoots an arrow in the cause of Allah, whether it misses or strikes its mark, shall have the reward of freeing a slave from among the descendants of Ishmael. Any man whose hair turns gray in the cause of Allah shall have it as a light for him. Any Muslim man who frees a Muslim man, every limb of the one freed shall ransom a limb of the emancipator from the Fire. Any Muslim woman who frees a Muslim woman, every limb of the one freed shall ransom a limb of the emancipator from the Fire. And any Muslim man—or woman—who offers to Allah three children from his or her progeny who have not reached the age of moral responsibility, they shall be a shield for him or her from the Fire.