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The Ghamidi woman was stoned in year 9 AH after she came and confessed the indecency against herself ¹.

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She confessed before the Prophet, who turned her away until she confessed fully and insisted; then he deferred her until she bore her son and weaned him — and she was stoned after the weaning ². The Prophet said of her that she had repented a repentance which, if divided among seventy of Medina's people, would have sufficed them ³.

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A woman confessed a grave sin and insisted on bearing its punishment after bearing and weaning her child — and the Prophet described her repentance as having been immense.

The capture of Thumama ibn Uthal al-Hanafi and his acceptance of Islam

Ibn Ishaq relates from Abu Sa'id al-Maqburi from Abu Hurayra: a cavalry party of the Prophet's seized a man of Banu Hanifa without knowing who he was; the Prophet said 'this is Thumama ibn Uthal al-Hanafi, treat your captive well', and had his household's food and his milch-camel sent to him; he kept inviting him to Islam and Thumama answered: if you kill, you kill a man of blood, and if you want ransom, ask what you will; then he ordered him released, and Thumama went to al-Baqi', purified himself and pledged Islam; when he then ate little, the Prophet said the unbeliever eats with seven bowels and the believer with one. Ibn Hisham adds his umra and loud talbiya at Mecca, and his cutting off the grain of al-Yamama from Mecca until the Prophet wrote to him to let the caravans through.

The stoning of the Ghamidi woman

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The capture of Thumama ibn Uthal al-Hanafi and his acceptance of Islam