(24) باب رَجْمِ مَاعِزِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ
Abu Sa'id said:
When the Prophet (May peace e upon him) commanded to stone Ma'iz b. Malik, we took him out to Baql. I swear by Allah, we did not tie him, nor did we dig a pit for him. But he was standing before us. The narrator Abu Kamil said: So we threw at him bones, clods of mud and pieces of earthenware. He ran away and we ran after him till he came to a side of the Harrah. He stood there before us and we threw at him big stones of the Harrah until he died. He (the Prophet) did not ask forgiveness for him, nor did he speak ill of him.
Reference: Sunan Abi Dawud 4431
In-book reference: Book 40, Hadith 81
English translation: Book 39, Hadith 4417