ʿUmar ibn Ismāʿīl

Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad informed us: ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Qutayba related to us: ʿUmar ibn Ismāʿīl related to us: Muḥammad ibn Abān ibn Mālik related to me, from his father, who said: I was with Abū Ḥanīfa—may God have mercy on him—when a man came and asked, ‘A man committed unlawful intercourse and the prescribed punishment was carried out on him. Is the funeral prayer offered over him?’ He said, ‘Yes.’ He asked, ‘To whom do you entrust him there?’ He said, ‘The Prophet—God bless him and grant him peace—had Māʿiz stoned and instructed that the funeral prayer be offered over him.’ He asked, ‘What about a woman who committed unlawful intercourse, became pregnant, and killed her child: is the funeral prayer offered over her?’ He said, ‘Yes. Do not omit the funeral prayer over any Muslim, whether subjected to a prescribed punishment or otherwise.’