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Aisha (may Allah be pleased with her) narrated: When my exoneration was revealed, the Prophet (ﷺ) stood on the pulpit and mentioned it. When he descended from the pulpit, he ordered regarding two men and a woman, and they were given their prescribed punishment.
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Commentary and footnotes (2)
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(1) The statement: They were given their prescribed punishment: Meaning the punishment for slander. Here, it refers to false accusation. It is stated in Rahmat al-Umma: The scholars agree that a free, rational, adult Muslim who falsely accuses a free, rational, chaste Muslim man or woman who has not been punished for adultery, explicitly accusing them of adultery, not in enemy territory, and the accused demands the punishment, is liable to eighty lashes, and no more than eighty. The punishment for a slave for slander is half that of a free person according to all jurists.
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(١) قوله: فضربوا حدهم: يعني حد الفرية. والمراد بها هنا القذف. قال في (رحمة الأمة): اتفق الأئمة على أن الحُرّ العاقل البالغ المسلم المختار إذا قذف حُرَّا عاقلًا مسلما عفيفًا لم يُحَدَّ في زنا أو حرة بالغة عاقلة مسلمة عفيفة غير ملاعنة لم تحد في زنا بصريح الزنا، وكان في غير دار الحرب وطلب المقذوف بنفسه إقامة الحد أنه يلزمه ثمانون جلدة، وأنه لا يزيد على ثمانين، وحد العبد في القذف نصف حد الحُرّ عند كافّة الفقهاء.