Explanation Needed For Muslim 2771
The narrators do not describe the whole details of the cases. They just narrate the result according to their own understanding. The essential details are always missing in their reports. The narrators were not like investigative reporters but bystanders. Misjudgment by the prophet despite all investigating was possible as the prophet said. The punishment of fornication is 100 stripes but if the act not just fornication but in case of multiple offences like zina in the form of rape, or man was a threat to women, he can be given the punishment of Fasad fil Ard. In that case one of the punishments is stoning to death.