Umar ordering an insane woman to be stoned !!!

One day an insane woman was brought before Caliph Umar Bin Khattab. She had committed fornication and admitted her fault. Umar ordered her to be stoned.

Ali was there. He said to Umar: "What are you doing? I have heard the Holy Prophet saying that three kinds of people are free from the hold of law: a sleeping man until he wakes; a lunatic until he recovers himself and regains consciousness; and the child until he comes of age." Hearing this, Umar acquitted the woman.

Ibnu's-Saman in his Kitabu'l-Muwafiqa has recorded many such cases. There are some accounts which record about 100 erroneous and fallacious findings of Umar.

Imam Ahmad Bin Hanbal in his Musnad;

Imamu'l-Haram Ahmad Bin Abdullah Shafi'i in Dhakha'iru'l-Mawadda, chapter II, p.75, from Hasan Basri;

Ibn Hajar in Fathu'l-Bari, vol.XII, P.101;

Abu Dawud in Sunan, vol. II, p.227;

Munadi in Faizu'l-Qadir, vol. IV, p. 257;

Hakim Nishapuri in Mustadrak, vol.II, p.59;

Qastalani in Irshadu's-Sari, vol.X, p. 9;

Baihaqi in Sunan, vol.VIII, p. 164;

Muhibu'd-din Tabari in Riyazu'n-Nazara, v.II, p.196;

Khatib Khawarizmi in his Munaqab, p.48;

Muhammad Ibn Talha Shafi'i in Matalibu's-Su'ul;

Imamu'l-Haram in Dhakha'iru'l-'Uqba, p.80;

Ibn Maja in his Sunan, v.II, p.227; Bukhari in his Sahih, chapter la yarjumu'l-majnun wa'l-majnuna and most of ulema have reported the incident.

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