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This story was narrated by Imam Al-Bukhari (Hadith no. 3849) from 'Amr Bin Maimun: During the pre-lslamic period of ignorance I saw a she-monkey surrounded by a number of monkey. They were all stoning it, because it had committed illegal sexual intercourse. I too, stoned it along with them.
Al-Hafidh Ibn Hajar said in his commentary on Sahih Al-Bukhari:
Al-Isma'ili narrated a longer version of this story with another chain of narrators in which 'Eesa Bin Hattan narrated from 'Amr Bin Maimun that he said:
I was in Yemen tending the sheep of my people up upon an elevation. A male monkey came with a female and laid his head on her hand. Then a smaller monkey came and beckoned towards her, so she gently slipped her hand out from under the cheek of the first monkey and followed him. He mated with her while I looked on. Then she returned and gently tried to slip her hand back under the cheek of the first monkey, but he woke up suddenly, smelled her, and cried out.
Then the monkeys gathered round and he began screaming while pointing towards her with his hand. The monkeys went all about and came back with that monkey that I recognized. They dug a pit for the two of them and stoned them both. So I had witnessed stoning being carried out by other than Adams descendants. [Fath Al-Bari 7/160]
Al-Hafidh Ibn Hajar said in his commentary on Sahih Al-Bukhari:
Al-Isma'ili narrated a longer version of this story with another chain of narrators in which 'Eesa Bin Hattan narrated from 'Amr Bin Maimun that he said:
I was in Yemen tending the sheep of my people up upon an elevation. A male monkey came with a female and laid his head on her hand. Then a smaller monkey came and beckoned towards her, so she gently slipped her hand out from under the cheek of the first monkey and followed him. He mated with her while I looked on. Then she returned and gently tried to slip her hand back under the cheek of the first monkey, but he woke up suddenly, smelled her, and cried out.
Then the monkeys gathered round and he began screaming while pointing towards her with his hand. The monkeys went all about and came back with that monkey that I recognized. They dug a pit for the two of them and stoned them both. So I had witnessed stoning being carried out by other than Adams descendants. [Fath Al-Bari 7/160]
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