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Stoning of Jews Using Torah as Warrant (Ibn Majah's Chain)

Ibn Majah 2547 (parallel d02)
Ibn Majah 2547 — Records the same incident as Abu Dawud 4396 (entry d02): a Jewish couple stoned for fornication, with Torah warrant. The Ibn Majah version provides cross-collection independent attestation.

Ibn Majah 2547 reinforces the cross-collection attestation of the Jewish-couple stoning incident. The substantive issues are addressed in entry d02. The Ibn Majah contribution: the teaching is preserved across all major Sunni collections, confirming its canonical status.

The analysis from entry d02 applies fully here.

  1. P1. Ibn Majah 2547 preserves the Jewish-couple stoning incident with cross-collection attestation.
  2. P2. The teaching is in Bukhari, Muslim, Abu Dawud, Tirmidhi, Nasa'i, and Ibn Majah.
  3. P3. The hadith establishes stoning as cross-confessional punishment under Muhammad's authority.
  4. P4. The Torah-warrant framing creates internal Islamic-doctrinal tension (selective acceptance of supposedly corrupted scripture).
  5. P5. The 'man shielding the woman' detail preserves the human moral horror of the act.
  6. P6. Modern stoning executions cite this and parallel material as warrant.
  7. P7. A morally serious framework does not establish stoning as cross-religious punishment for adultery. (See entry d02.)

Ibn Majah 2547 completes the cross-collection attestation of the Jewish-couple stoning incident. (See entry d02 for substantive analysis.)

Common Muslim response · 1

Applied to Jews under their own law.

Counter-response

Internal inconsistency with Islamic Tahrif claim. (See d02.)

Common Muslim response · 2

Confirms 7th-century Torah preservation.

Counter-response

Modern Torah still has stoning; corruption-by-removal claim fails. (See d02.)

Common Muslim response · 3

Stoning was Allah's ordained punishment.

Counter-response

Conflicts with Q 24:2 (lashes). (See d02, d10.)

Common Muslim response · 4

Human dimension preserved in canonical record.

Counter-response

Detail testifies to cruelty. (See d02.)

Common Muslim response · 5

Modern stoning rare.

Counter-response

Continues today. (See d02.)