“Al-Bazzār narrated it, and its transmitters are trustworthy, except that al-Aʿmash did not hear from Anas, though he saw him.”

I then found a supporting report for the hadith in the hadith of Buraydah ibn al-Ḥuṣayb—may Allah be pleased with him—concerning the stoning of the Ghamidiyyah woman. When she came to the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, seeking the prescribed punishment to be carried out upon her, he said to her:

“Go away until you give birth.”

When she gave birth, she came to him with the child wrapped in a cloth and said, “Here he is; I have given birth to him.” He said:

“Go away and nurse him until you wean him.”

When she had weaned him, she came to him with the child holding a piece of bread in his hand, and said, “O Prophet of Allah, I have weaned him, and he has begun to eat food.” He then entrusted the child to a Muslim man, ordered that a pit be dug for her up to her chest, and commanded the people to stone her. Then he, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said:

“By Him in Whose Hand is my soul, she has repented with such a repentance that, if one who levied unlawful taxes were to repent likewise, he would be forgiven.”

It was narrated by Muslim (5/20), Abu Dawud (4442), al-Bayhaqi (4/18 and 8/218 and 222), and Ahmad (5/348). *

3239—“Indeed, a person in authority stands at the threshold of peril, except one whom Allah, Exalted is He, protects.”

Al-Tabarani narrated it in al-Muʿjam al-Kabir (4/55/3603) through Muʿawiyah ibn Hisham, from Sufyan, from ʿAtaʾ ibn al-Saʾib, from Malik ibn al-Harith, from a man. Al-Hadrami—al-Tabarani’s shaykh—said, in the book of Abu Kurayb—al-Hadrami’s shaykh—: “From Humayd.” He said: “From a man,” who said: