The answer is, simply: Muhammad. Per Qur’an 33:21, he is the supreme example of conduct for Muslims. Muhammad’s involvement in stonings is recorded in Sunni ahadith, and the tradition has clearly survived among Shi’ites as well. It doesn’t matter that stoning doesn’t appear in the Qur’an, because the notion of Islam as a sola scriptura … Continue reading Iranian woman facing death by stoning: “Many nights, before sleeping, I think to myself how can anybody be prepared to throw stones at me; to aim at my face and hands? Why?”