Hadith 93

(The book) ‘Al Kafi’ – Ali, from his father, from Ibn Mahboub, from Al Batainy, from Abu Baseer, from Imran Bin Maysam or Salih Bin Maysam, from his father who said, ‘A woman came bragging to Amir Al-Momineen-asws. She said, ‘O Amir Al-Momineen-asws! I have committed Adultery, so purify me! ’ – and he continued the lengthy Hadeeth until he said, ‘Amir Al-Momineen-asws brought her out to the outback of Al-Kufa and he-asws ordered for a pit to be dug out for her, then to bury her (halfway) in it. Then he-asws rode his-asws mule and called out at the top of his-asws voice: ‘O you people! Allah-azwj the Exalted Covenanted to His-azwj Prophet-saww a Covenant. Muhammad-saww covenanted it to me-asws that the legal penalty of Allah-azwj cannot be established by the one who has (that very) legal punishment due upon him. So, the one who has a legal penalty of Allah-azwj (for adultery) due upon him what is upon her, he should not establish the legal penalty upon her! ’
The people dispersed on that day, all of them, apart from Amir Al-Momineen-asws, and Al-Hassan-asws and Al-Husayn-asws, may the Salawaat of Allah-azwj be upon them-asws. So, these three applied the legal penalty upon her, and there was no one else with them. And among the ones who dispersed away on that day was Muhammad son of Amir Al-Momineen-asws’’. [139]