Chapter on What Necessitates Discretionary Punishment, Legal Punishment, Stoning, Execution, and Exile in Adultery

It is narrated from Ammar ibn Musa Al-Sabati that Abu Abdullah عليه السلام said: I asked Imam عليه السلام about a man against whom three men testified that he had committed adultery with a certain woman, but the fourth witness testified that he did not know with whom the man had committed adultery. Imam عليه السلام replied: "He is neither to be punished with lashes nor stoned." Imam عليه السلام was also asked about a married woman who committed adultery and was pregnant. Imam عليه السلام said: "She should be kept until she gives birth to what is in her womb and nurses her child, then she is to be stoned."