[Machine] That Muawiyah wrote to Abu Musa asking about a man who entered his house and found another man with his wife so he killed either the man or the woman? So Abu Musa asked Ali about it, and Ali said to him, "What reminded you of this? This is not related to us. I have decided concerning you." He said that Muawiyah wrote to him asking if he asked him about it. He said, "I am Abu Hassan. If four witnesses come to us, otherwise he is punished with his own statement." Yahya ibn Sa'id said, "He is killed." The sheikh, may Allah have mercy on him, said that this is from the hadith of Malik ibn Anas, from Yahya ibn Sa'id, who said that Al-Shafi'i, may Allah have mercy on him, witnessed against a man with fornication and the fourth did not confirm, so he was whipped the three times.  

أَنَّ مُعَاوِيَةَ كَتَبَ إِلَى أَبِي مُوسَى سَلْ عَلِيًّا ؓ عَنْ رَجُلٍ دَخَلَ بَيْتَهُ فَإِذَا مَعَ امْرَأَتِهِ رَجُلٌ فَقَتَلَهَا أَوْ قَتَلَهُ؟ فَسَأَلَهُ أَبُو مُوسَى فَقَالَ لَهُ عَلِيٌّ ؓ مَا ذَكَّرَكَ هَذَا؟ إِنَّ هَذَا لَشَيْءٌ مَا هُوَ بِأَرْضِنَا؟ عَزَمْتُ عَلَيْكَ قَالَ كَتَبَ إِلِيَّ مُعَاوِيَةُ فِي أَنْ أَسْأَلَكَ عَنْهَا قَالَ أَنَا أَبُو حَسَنٍ إِنْ جَاءَنَا بِأَرْبَعَةِ شُهَدَاءَ وَإِلَّا دَفَعَ بِرُمَّتِهِ قَالَ يَحْيَى بْنُ سَعِيدٍ يُقْتَلُ قَالَ الشَّيْخُ رَحِمَهُ اللهُ وَقَدْ مَضَى مِنْ حَدِيثِ مَالِكِ بْنِ أَنَسٍ عَنْ يَحْيَى بْنِ سَعِيدٍ قَالَ الشَّافِعِيُّ رَحِمَهُ اللهُ وَشَهِدَ ثَلَاثَةٌ عَلَى رَجُلٍ عِنْدَ عُمَرَ ؓ بِالزِّنَا وَلَمْ يُثْبِتِ الرَّابِعُ فَجَلَدَ الثَّلَاثَةَ